Herman Melville / editor, Eric Carl Link. - Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, �2013. - xii, 340 pages ; 24 cm. - Critical insights . - Critical insights. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On Herman Melville / Biography of Herman Melville / Melville's America : the United States in the mid-nineteenth century / The critical response to Herman Melville / Melville and the Transcendentalists / Transgressing the border : the complexities of colonial critique in Typee / At the axis of reality : Melville's aesthetic / Melville and the gothic romance / The many masks of Melville's god / Melville's democratic America / Typee of the myth of paradise / Mardi : Melville's search for narrative / Moby-Dick and metaphysics / Pierre and the ambiguities of antebellum America / Melville's anatomy of American belief : The confidence-man : his masquerade / Metrical Melville : the career of an obscure poet / Billy Budd, sailor : or, how to read a book / Eric Carl Link -- Greg Conley -- John David Miles -- John Samson -- Clark Davis -- Nicole de Fee -- David Dowling -- Gale Temple -- John Wenke -- Shelby Crosby -- Jonathan A. Cook -- Anna Krauthammer -- Steven Frye -- Peter West -- Peter J. Balaam -- Brian Yothers -- Wyn Kelley.

9781429837262 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1429837268 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --Criticism and interpretation.

PS 2387 / .H416 2013