Melville's mirrors
Subtitle: literary criticism and America's most elusive author
By: Brian Yothers
Series: Studies in American literature and culture : literary criticism in perspective
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781571135094
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining Melville : the Melville revival and biographical and textual criticism; title: Literary aesthetics and the visual arts; title: Melville's beard I : religion, ethics, and epistemology; title: Melville's beard II : gender, sexuality, and the body; title: Aspects of America : democracy, nationalism, and war; title: "An anacharsis clootz deputation" : race, ethnicity, empire, and cosmopolitanism.