Melville and Milton
Subtitle: an edition and analysis of Melville's annotations on Milton
By: edited by Robin Grey.
Contributors: Grey, Robin
Series: Medieval & renaissance literary studies; Medieval and Renaissance literary studies
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Literature.; Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 19th century.; Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Appreciation -- United States.; Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Books and reading.; Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Influence.; American fiction -- English influences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects : Pip, Isabel, and Melville's Miltonic sublime / Bryan C. Short; title: Messianic power and Satanic decay : Milton in Moby Dick / Leslie E. Sheldon; title: Annotations on Civil War : Melville's battle-pieces and Milton's war in Heaven / Robin Grey; title: "Too intellectual a poet ever to be popular" : Herman Melville and the Miltonic dimension of Clarel / John T. Shawcross; title: "Rousing motions" and the silence of God : Scripture and immediate revelation in Samson Agonistes and Clarel / David Urban; title: Melville's marginalia : Milton's poems / Douglas Robillard; title: Melville's Milton : A transcription of Melville's marginalia in his copy of the poetical works of John Milton / Robin Grey & Douglas Robillard (in consultation with Hershel Parker).