Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Herman Melville - Moby Dick
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Nick Selby
SeriesReaders' Guides to Essential Criticism
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:180
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 129
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9781874166757
ClassificationsDewey:813.3
Audience
A / AS level
Undergraduate
General
Illustrations 180 p.

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Red Globe Press
Publication Date 1 April 1998
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Nick Selby offers a view of the critical debate about Melville's "Moby Dick". The text begins with Melville's own letters and essays and the early reviews, followed by the "Melville revival" of the 1920s, the novel's central place in "American Studies in the 1940s and 50s, and the postmodern "New Americanist" readings of the 1980s.

Author Biography

NICK SELBY is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Glasgow.

Reviews

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