TY - BOOK AU - Link,Eric Carl TI - Herman Melville T2 - Critical insights SN - 9781429837262 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - PS 2387 .H416 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Ipswich, Mass. PB - Salem Press KW - Melville, Herman, N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -