Herman Melville
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Edition: New ed.
Series: Bloom's modern critical views
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780791096215
Subjects: Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Towards Bartleby the Scrivener / by Milton R. Stern; title: Melville's problematic "being" / by Sanford E. Marovitz; title: Reevisioning America : Melville's Benito Cereno / by Sandra A. Zagarell; title: "The author at the time" : Tommo and Melville's self-discovery in Typee / by Bryan C. Short; title: Melville and the woman's story / by Nancy Fredericks; title: To tell over again the story just told : the composition of Melville's Redburn / by Stephen Mathewson; title: Israel Potter : Melville's citizen of the universe / by Bill Christophersen; title: Disquieting encounters : male intrusions/female realms in Melville / by Judith Hiltner; title: Mardi : narrative self-fashioning and the play of possibility / by John Wenke; title: Whose book is Moby-Dick? / by Merton M. Sealts, Jr; title: Naples and HMS Bellipotent : Melville on the police state / by Stanton Garner; title: Naturalist psychology in Billy Budd / by Thomas Hove; title: We are family : Melville's Pierre / by Cindy Weinstein; title: Discipline and the lash in Melville's White-jacket / by Peter Bellis.