Title:
Moby-Dick / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.
Author:
Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.
Publication Information:
Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2014]
©2014
Call Number:
PS2384.M62 M623 2014
Edition:
[First edition].
ISBN:
9781619254053
Series:
Critical insights
Critical insights.
Physical Description:
xiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Edition statement supplied by publisher.
Contents:
[pt. 1.] The book and author -- On Moby-Dick / Joseph Csicsila -- Biography of Herman Melville / Jonathan D. Wright -- [pt. 2.] Critical contexts -- Sailor, writer, metaphysician / Mary K. Bercaw Edwards -- The critics and the whale / Brian Yothers -- Critical pluralism and Melville's Moby-Dick / Robert C. Evans -- Miriam Coffin and Moby-Dick / Robert C. Evans and Kelhi D. DePace -- [pt. 3.] Critical readings -- The earliest reactions to Moby-Dick : a comprehensive overview / Sarah Fredericks, Stephen Paul Bray, and Robert C. Evans -- "New" responses to Moby-Dick in the nineteenth century / Robert C. Evans -- Melville's "The town-ho's story" and the merits of historical formalism / Robert C. Evans -- The limits of Ishmael's reading in Moby-Dick / Robert Klevay -- Ishmael's doubts and intuitions : religion in Moby-Dick / Brian Yothers -- Moby-Dick and nineteenth-century natural history / Jonathan A. Cook -- "We account the whale immortal" : fantasies of ecological abundance and discourses of extinction in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick / Jennifer Schell -- Humor, comic personification, and the "pathetic fallacy" in Moby-Dick / Robert C. Evans -- Teaching Melville and the arts to creative students in a new century / Robert K. Wallace.
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