After the whale
Subtitle: Melville in the wake of Moby-Dick
By: Clark Davis.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-226) and index.