Melville, mapping and globalization
Subtitle: literary cartography in the American baroque writer
By: Robert T. Tally, Jr.
Publisher: Continuum Logo
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780826471512
Subjects: Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation; Setting (Literature); Space and time in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: "when Leviathan's the text"; title: Out of bounds: Melville's American baroque; title: Spaces of American literature: geography and narrative form; title: 'An everlasting terra incognita': globalization and world literature; title: Anti-Ishmael; title: Marine nomadology: Melville's antinomy of pure reason; title: 'spaces that before were blank': the utopia of the periphery; title: A prosy stroll: overview and the urban itinerary; title: The ambiguities of place: local narrative and the global city; title: Conclusion: "Leviathan is not the biggest fish", or, the cartography of the Kraken.