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Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby Dick is now a central work in the American literary canon. This introduction offers readings of Melville's masterpiece, but it also sets out the key themes, contexts, and critical reception of his entire oeuvre. The first chapters cover Melville's life and the historical and cultural contexts. Melville's individual works each receive full attention in the third chapter, including Typee, Moby Dick, Billy Budd and the short stories. Elsewhere in the chapter different themes in Melville are explained with reference to several works: Melville's writing process, Melville as letter writer, Melville and the past, Melville and modernity, Melville's late writings. The final chapter analyses Melville scholarship from his day to ours. Kevin J. Hayes provides comprehensive information about Melville's life and works in an accessible and engaging book that will be essential for students beginning to read this important author.

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Melville, Herman, --- Melville, Herman --- Melvill, German --- Melville, Hermann --- Meville, Herman --- Melvil, Cherman --- Mai-erh-wei-erh, Ho-erh-man --- Melṿil, Herman --- Tarnmoor, Salvator R. --- מלוויל, הרמן, --- מלויל, הרמן, --- ميلڤيل، هرمن، --- 麥爾維爾, --- Virginian spending July in Vermont, --- Melvill, Herman, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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After the Whale contextualizes Herman Melville's short fiction and poetry by studying it in the company of the more familiar fiction of the 1850s and 1890s. The study focuses on Melville's vision of the purpose and function of language from Moby-Dick through Billy Budd with a special emphasis on how language - in function and form - follows and depends on the function and form of the body, how Melville's attitude toward words echoes his attitude toward flesh.

American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Melville, Herman, --- Melville, Herman --- Melvill, German --- Melville, Hermann --- Meville, Herman --- Melvil, Cherman --- Mai-erh-wei-erh, Ho-erh-man --- Melṿil, Herman --- Tarnmoor, Salvator R. --- מלוויל, הרמן, --- מלויל, הרמן, --- ميلڤيل، هرمن، --- 麥爾維爾, --- Virginian spending July in Vermont, --- Melvill, Herman, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation

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In fascinating new contextual readings of four of Herman Melville's novels-Typee, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and Pierre-Samuel Otter delves into Melville's exorbitant prose to show how he anatomizes ideology, making it palpable and strange. Otter portrays Melville as deeply concerned with issues of race, the body, gender, sentiment, and national identity. He articulates a range of contemporary texts (narratives of travelers, seamen, and slaves; racial and aesthetic treatises; fiction; poetry; and essays) in order to flesh out Melville's discursive world.Otter presents Melville's works as "inside narratives" offering material analyses of consciousness. Chapters center on the tattooed faces in Typee, the flogged bodies in White-Jacket, the scrutinized heads in Moby-Dick, and the desiring eyes and eloquent, constricted hearts of Pierre. Otter shows how Melville's books tell of the epic quest to know the secrets of the human body. Rather than dismiss contemporary beliefs about race, self, and nation, Melville inhabits them, acknowledging their appeal and examining their sway.Meticulously researched and brilliantly argued, this groundbreaking study links Melville's words to his world and presses the relations between discourse and ideology. It will deeply influence all future studies of Melville and his work.

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