Melville and Aesthetics [electronic resource] /
Sanborn, G.editor.
Otter, S.editor.
In an original and provocative series of readings that range across Melville's career, the contributors consider not only the sources and implications of Melville's aesthetics, but the relationship between aesthetic criticism, historical analysis, and contemporary theory.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Halftitle; Title; contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Aesthetics and Melville; 1 Blubber: Melville's Bad Writing; 2 Melville's Ornamentation: On Irrelevant Beauty; 3 Melvillean Provocation and the Critical Art of Devotion; 4 Strange Sensations: Sex and Aesthetics in "The Counterpane"; 5 Dead Bones and Honest Wonders: The Aesthetics of Natural Science in Moby-Dick; 6 Pulled by the Line: Speed and Photography in Moby-Dick; 7 Pierre's Nominal Conversions; 8 "The Silhouette of a Content": "Bartleby" and American Literary Specificity
9 The Revolutionary Aesthetics of Israel Potter10 Theatricality, Strangeness, and the Aesthetics of Plurality in The Confidence-Man; 11 Battle Music: Melville and the Forms of War; 12 Melville's Song of Songs: Clarel as Aesthetic Pilgrimage; Works Cited; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In an original and provocative series of readings that range across Melville's career, the contributors consider not only the sources and implications of Melville's aesthetics, but the relationship between aesthetic criticism, historical analysis, and contemporary theory.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Fiction.
Literature—Philosophy.
America—Literatures.
Ethnology.
Aesthetics.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
North American Literature.
Cultural Anthropology.
Aesthetics.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.