Herman Melville,Dan McCall: Melville's Short Novels: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism
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Author: Herman Melville,Dan McCall
Number of Pages: 432 pages
Published Date: 03 Apr 2008
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780393976410
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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.