Description
Each text has been carefully edited and annotated for student readers.
As his writing reflects, Melville was extraordinarily well read. "Contexts" collects important sources for each novel, including writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amasa Delano, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
"Criticism" includes twenty-eight essays about the novels sure to promote classroom discussion. Contributors include Leo Marx, Elizabeth Hardwick, Frederick Busch, Robert Lowell, Herschel Parker, Carolyn L. Karcher, Thomas Mann, and Hannah Arendt.
A Selected Bibliography is included.
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/28/2001
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.19w x 0.87d
ISBN13: 9780393976410
ISBN10: 0393976416
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | General
As his writing reflects, Melville was extraordinarily well read. "Contexts" collects important sources for each novel, including writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amasa Delano, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
"Criticism" includes twenty-eight essays about the novels sure to promote classroom discussion. Contributors include Leo Marx, Elizabeth Hardwick, Frederick Busch, Robert Lowell, Herschel Parker, Carolyn L. Karcher, Thomas Mann, and Hannah Arendt.
A Selected Bibliography is included.
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/28/2001
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.19w x 0.87d
ISBN13: 9780393976410
ISBN10: 0393976416
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | General