Pelton, Ted
A brief synopsis and critical analysis of Herman Melville’s Mardi, and a Voyage Thithe...
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Masterplots, Fourth Edition. Nov2010, p1-4. 4p.
A brief synopsis and critical analysis of Herman Melville ’s Mardi , and a Voyage Thither . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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FARMER, MEREDITH;FARMER, MEREDITH
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Leviathan; Jun2016, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p4-28, 25p
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Adams, Michael
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Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century. Jan2000, p1-4. 4p.
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With great power and insight into man’s ambiguous nature, Melville helped prove that A...
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Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century. Jan2000, p1-4. 4p.
With great power and insight into man’s ambiguous nature, Melville helped prove that American literature could equal that of England. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Johnson, Clarence O.
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Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Jan2010, p1-7. 7p.
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A biographical essay about Herman Melville, with brief critical analysis of major work...
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Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Jan2010, p1-7. 7p.
A biographical essay about Herman Melville , with brief critical analysis of major works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Shields, John C.;;Shields, John C.
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Critical Survey of Poetry: American Poets; January 2011, p1-6
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A biographical essay about Herman Melville, with brief critical analysis of major work...
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Critical Survey of Poetry: American Poets; January 2011, p1-6
A biographical essay about Herman Melville , with brief critical analysis of major works.
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Academy of American Poets -- Biographies of American Poets; 2008, p1-1, 1p
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Loveday, Veronica
Presents a biography of American writer Herman Melville. Early life and teaching care...
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Herman Melville. 8/1/2017, p1-2. 2p.
Presents a biography of American writer Herman Melville . Early life and teaching career; Inspiration derived from his sea voyages ; Success of his first novels, 'Typee' and 'Omoo'; Influence of fellow author Nathaniel Hawthorne on the composition of Melville's masterpiece, 'Moby Dick'; How his career declined after the book's initial publication; Details of his later works, written while working as a customs inspector; Impact of 'Moby Dick' on readers of later generations.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 - Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Book) - Authors - American authors - Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864Content provider:
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Appealing to the Sensible: "Mr. Parkman's Tour," Gold Fever, and Melville's Ambivalent Westward Approach.
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Leviathan; Mar2017, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p69-84, 16p
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LAWRENCE, NICHOLAS;LAWRENCE, NICHOLAS
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Leviathan; Mar2017, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p69-84, 16p
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Norsworthy, Scott;Norsworthy, Scott
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Leviathan; Nov2008, Vol. 10 Issue 3, p7-37, 31p, 3 Black and White Photographs, 1 Chart
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Norsworthy, Scott;Norsworthy, Scott
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Leviathan; Mar2011, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p88-115, 28p
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FORD, SEAN;FORD, SEAN
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Leviathan; Oct2016, Vol. 18 Issue 3, p47-67, 21p
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Redburn, His First Voyage ; White-jacket, Or, The World in a Man-of-war; Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale
Melville, Herman;Tanselle, G. Thomas;Melville, Herman;Tanselle, G. Thomas
Texts reproduced from the Northwestern-Newberry ed. of the Writings of Herman Melville...
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Redburn, His First Voyage ; White-jacket, Or, The World in a Man-of-war; Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale
1983
Texts reproduced from the Northwestern-Newberry ed. of the Writings of Herman Melville published by Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library.
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Sea stories, American--FictionContent provider:
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"Thou Shalt Not be Cozened": Incest, Self-Reliance, and the Portioning of Gendered Bodies in the Works of Herman Melville .
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Texas Studies in Literature & Language. Fall2013, Vol. 55 Issue 3, p253-306. 54p.
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Hardack, Richard
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Texas Studies in Literature & Language. Fall2013, Vol. 55 Issue 3, p253-306. 54p.
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The article examines actual and fantasized acts of incest in the literary works of aut...
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"Thou Shalt Not be Cozened": Incest, Self-Reliance, and the Portioning of Gendered Bodies in the Works of Herman Melville .
Texas Studies in Literature & Language. Fall2013, Vol. 55 Issue 3, p253-306. 54p.
The article examines actual and fantasized acts of incest in the literary works of author Herman Melville , including "Pierre," "Mardi " and "Moby-Dick." In several works, male characters imagine that incest might reunify them with a version of the concept of the term "all," or a collective form of identity. In order to address the extremes of male identity, Melville uses transcendental pantheism. It is suggested that incest in Melville's works becomes a proxy for redefining family and intimacy.
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Incest in literature - Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 - Pierre: Or, the Ambiguities (Book : Melville) - Pantheism in literature - Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (Book) - Mardi (Book) - Masculine identityContent provider:
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Tuerk, Richard
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Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition. Jan2003, p1-2. 2p.
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A biographical essay about Herman Melville. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition. Jan2003, p1-2. 2p.
A biographical essay about Herman Melville . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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The Otherness of the Real in Herman Melville's Clarel.
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Neophilologus. Oct2016, Vol. 100 Issue 4, p677-693. 17p.
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Al-Malki, Norah
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Neophilologus. Oct2016, Vol. 100 Issue 4, p677-693. 17p.
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DelFattore, Joan;Rohrberger, Mary;;;DelFattore, Joan;Rohrberger, Mary
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: American Writers; January 2012, p1-2
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A biographical essay about Herman Melville, with brief critical analysis of major shor...
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: American Writers; January 2012, p1-2
A biographical essay about Herman Melville , with brief critical analysis of major short fiction works.
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Academy of American Poets -- Biographies of American Poets. 2008, p1-1. 1p.
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A biography of U.S. poet Herman Melville is presented. Born in 1819 into a once-promin...
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Academy of American Poets -- Biographies of American Poets. 2008, p1-1. 1p.
A biography of U.S. poet Herman Melville is presented. Born in 1819 into a once-prominent New York family, Melville was raised in an atmosphere of financial instability and genteel pretense. During the 1850s, Melville supported his family by farming and writing stories for magazines. In 1857, he became a customs inspector, a job he held for twenty years. And he began to write poetry. Melville's first published book of poems was "Battle-Pieces" and "Aspects of the War."
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 - American poets - Authors - Battle-Pieces (Book) - Aspects of the War (Book)Content provider:
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Writing America : Literary Landmarks From Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (A Reader's Companion)
Shelley Fisher Fishkin;Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarshi...
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Writing America : Literary Landmarks From Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (A Reader's Companion)
2015
Winner of the John S. Tuckey 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award for Mark Twain Scholarship from The Center for Mark Twain Studies American novelist E.L. Doctorow once observed that literature “endows places with meaning.” Yet, as this wide-ranging new book vividly illustrates, understanding the places that shaped American writers'lives and their art can provide deep insight into what makes their literature truly meaningful. Published on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Historic Preservation Act, Writing America is a unique, passionate, and eclectic series of meditations on literature and history, covering over 150 important National Register historic sites, all pivotal to the stories that make up America, from chapels to battlefields; from plantations to immigration stations; and from theaters to internment camps. The book considers not only the traditional sites for literary tourism, such as Mark Twain's sumptuous Connecticut home and the peaceful woods surrounding Walden Pond, but also locations that highlight the diversity of American literature, from the New York tenements that spawned Abraham Cahan's fiction to the Texas pump house that irrigated the fields in which the farm workers central to Gloria Anzaldúa's poetry picked produce. Rather than just providing a cursory overview of these authors'achievements, acclaimed literary scholar and cultural historian Shelley Fisher Fishkin offers a deep and personal reflection on how key sites bore witness to the struggles of American writers and inspired their dreams. She probes the global impact of American writers'innovative art and also examines the distinctive contributions to American culture by American writers who wrote in languages other than English, including Yiddish, Chinese, and Spanish. Only a scholar with as wide-ranging interests as Shelley Fisher Fishkin would dare to bring together in one book writers as diverse as Gloria Anzaldúa, Nicholas Black Elk, David Bradley, Abraham Cahan, S. Alice Callahan, Raymond Chandler, Frank Chin, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Countee Cullen, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jessie Fauset, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Allen Ginsberg, Jovita González, Rolando Hinojosa, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Lawson Fusao Inada, James Weldon Johnson, Erica Jong, Maxine Hong Kingston, Irena Klepfisz, Nella Larsen, Emma Lazarus, Sinclair Lewis, Genny Lim, Claude McKay, Herman Melville , N. Scott Momaday, William Northup, John Okada, Miné Okubo, Simon Ortiz, Américo Paredes, John P. Parker, Ann Petry, Tomás Rivera, Wendy Rose, Morris Rosenfeld, John Steinbeck, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Yoshiko Uchida, Tino Villanueva, Nathanael West, Walt Whitman, Richard Wright, Hisaye Yamamoto, Anzia Yezierska, and Zitkala-Ša. Leading readers on an enticing journey across the borders of physical places and imaginative terrains, the book includes over 60 images, and extended excerpts from a variety of literary works. Each chapter ends with resources for further exploration. Writing America reveals the alchemy though which American writers have transformed the world around them into art, changing their world and ours in the process.
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Authors, American--Homes and haunts--United States - Literary landmarks--United States - American literature--19th century--History and criticism - American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism - American literature--20th century--History and criticismContent provider:
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Gothic Short Story Writers
Salem Press;Salem Press
Gothic Short Fiction is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from C...
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Gothic Short Story Writers
2017
Gothic Short Fiction is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Fourth Edition. Every article in this set was carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in Gothic Short Fiction discuss such influential authors as Honoré de Balzac, Walter de la Mare, Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe.
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Authors--Biography--Handbooks, manuals, etc - Gothic literature--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc - Paranormal fiction--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etcContent provider:
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Birth of a Notion; Or, The Half Ain't Never Been Told : A Narrative Account with Entertaining Passages of the State of Minstrelsy & of America & the True Relation Thereof
Bill Harris;Bill Harris
A critical look at black identity in American history and popular culture as told from...
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Birth of a Notion; Or, The Half Ain't Never Been Told : A Narrative Account with Entertaining Passages of the State of Minstrelsy & of America & the True Relation Thereof
2010
A critical look at black identity in American history and popular culture as told from a performative African American perspective.
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Minstrel music - African Americans--PoetryContent provider:
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Dictionary of American History
Kutler, Stanley I.;Kutler, Stanley I.
Part of an integrated online collection of primary documents, secondary reference sour...
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Dictionary of American History
2003
Part of an integrated online collection of primary documents, secondary reference sources, and journal articles covering all areas of U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present day.
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Columbia Literary History of the United States
Elliott, Emory;Banta, Martha;Baker, Houston A.;Elliott, Emory;Banta, Martha...
For the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up-to-date surve...
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Columbia Literary History of the United States
1988
For the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties. This comprehensive volume - one of the century's most important books in American studies - extensively treats Hawthorne, Melville , Dickinson, Hemingway, and other long-cherished writers, while also giving considerable attention to recently discovered writers such as Kate Chopin and to literary movements and forms of writing not studied amply in the past. Informed by the most current critical and theoretical ideas, it sets forth a generation's interpretation of the rise of American civilization and culture. The Columbia Literary History of the United States contains essays by today's foremost scholars and critics, overseen by a board of distinguished editors headed by Emory Elliott of Princeton University. These contributors reexamine in contemporary terms traditional subjects such as the importance of Puritanism, Romanticism, and frontier humor in American life and writing, but they also fully explore themes and materials that have only begun to receive deserved attention in the last two decades. Among these are the role of women as writers, readers, and literary subjects and the impact of writers from minority groups, both inside and outside the literary establishment.
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American literature--History and criticismContent provider:
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Slave Narratives (LOA #114) : James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw / Olaudah Equiano / Nat Turner / Frederick Douglass / William Wells Brown / Henry Bibb / Sojourner Truth / William and Ell
William L. Andrews;Henry Louis Gates;William L. Andrews;Henry Louis Gates
This collection of landmark slave narratives demonstrates how a diverse group of write...
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Slave Narratives (LOA #114) : James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw / Olaudah Equiano / Nat Turner / Frederick Douglass / William Wells Brown / Henry Bibb / Sojourner Truth / William and Ell
2000; Vol. 00114
This collection of landmark slave narratives demonstrates how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary tradition No literary genre speaks as directly and as eloquently to the brutal contradictions in American history as the slave narrative. The works collected in this volume present unflinching portrayals of the cruelty and degradation of slavery while testifying to the African-American struggle for freedom and dignity. They demonstrate the power of the written word to affirm a person's—and a people's—humanity in a society poisoned by racism. Slave Narratives shows how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and, through their expression of anger, pain, sorrow, and courage, laid the foundations of the African-American literary tradition.This volume collects ten works published between 1772 and 1864:• Narratives by James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1772) and Olaudah Equiano (1789) recount how they were taken from Africa as children and brought across the Atlantic to British North America.• The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) provides unique insight into the man who led the deadliest slave uprising in American history.• The widely read narratives by the fugitive slaves Frederick Douglass (1845), William Wells Brown (1847), and Henry Bibb (1849) strengthened the abolitionist cause by exposing the hypocrisies inherent in a slaveholding society ostensibly dedicated to liberty and Christian morality.• The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850) describes slavery in the North while expressing the eloquent fervor of a dedicated woman.• Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860) tells the story of William and Ellen Craft's subversive and ingenious escape from Georgia to Philadelphia.• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) is Harriet Jacobs's complex and moving story of her prolonged resistance to sexual and racial oppression.• The narrative of the “trickster” Jacob Green (1864) presents a disturbing story full of wild humor and intense cruelty.Together, these works fuse memory, advocacy, and defiance into a searing collective portrait of American life before emancipation. Slave Narratives contains a chronology of events in the history of slavery, as well as biographical and explanatory notes and an essay on the texts.
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Enslaved persons' writings, American - African Americans--Biography - Enslaved persons--United States--BiographyContent provider:
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Biographical Companion to Literature in English
Kamm, Antony;Kamm, Antony
Rev. and updated ed. of: Collins biographical dictionary of English literature. c1993.
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Biographical Companion to Literature in English
1997
Rev. and updated ed. of: Collins biographical dictionary of English literature. c1993.
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Authors, English--Biography--Dictionaries - Authors--Biography--Dictionaries - English literature--DictionariesContent provider:
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History of the United States of America During the Administrations of James Madison
Adams, Henry;Harbert, Earl N.;Adams, Henry;Harbert, Earl N.
