Herman Melville - Link, Eric Carl. (Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, 2013)
On Herman Melville / Eric Carl Link -- Biography of Herman Melville / Greg Conley -- Melville's America : the United States in the mid-nineteenth century / John David Miles -- The critical response to Herman Melville / John Samson -- Melville and the Transcendentalists / Clark Davis -- Transgressing the border : the complexities of colonial critique in Typee / Nicole de Fee -- At the axis of reality : Melville's aesthetic / David Dowling -- Melville and the gothic romance / Gale Temple -- The many masks of Melville's god / John Wenke -- Melville's democratic America / Shelby Crosby -- Typee of the myth of paradise / Jonathan A. Cook -- Mardi : Melville's search for narrative / Anna Krauthammer -- Moby-Dick and metaphysics / Steven Frye -- Pierre and the ambiguities of antebellum America / Peter West -- Melville's anatomy of American belief : The confidence-man : his masquerade / Peter J. Balaam -- Metrical Melville : the career of an obscure poet / Brian Yothers -- Billy Budd, sailor : or, how to read a book / Wyn Kelley.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation