| Description |
xxviii, 255 pages ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Critical responses in arts and letters, 1057-0993 ; no. 13 |
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Critical responses in arts and letters ; no. 13
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| Contents |
Series Foreword / Cameron Northouse -- Introduction: Moby-Dick and the Aesthetics of Response -- Contemporary Reviews. Rhapsody Run Mad / Anonymous. Heroics and Horrors / Anonymous. A Strange, Wild, Weird Book / George Henry Lewes. A Book of Extraordinary Merit / Anonymous. The Judgment Day Will Hold Him Liable / Anonymous. Vile Overdaubing with a Coat of Book-Learning and Mysticism / Anonymous. Wildly Imaginative and Truly Thrilling / Anonymous. An Intellectual Chowder / Evert Duyckinck. His Whole Soul Is Rapt in His Subject / Anonymous -- The Melville Revival. A Medley of Noble Impassioned Thoughts / W. Clark Russell. The Practical with the Ideal / H. S. Salt. A Strange, Conglomerate Book / William B. Cairns. "Moby Dick" and the Years to Come / Anonymous. Romance and Adventure / Anonymous. "Moby Dick" / E. L. Grant Watson. A Moby-Dick Testimonial: "A Wayfarer" / H. W. Massingham. Not Everybody's Book / Frank Swinnerton. Great Names: Herman Melville / Viola Meynell |
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The Crown of Melville's Artistic Achievement / J. C. Squire. An Introduction to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: or the Whale / A. S. W. Rosenbach. Mr. Melville's "Moby-Dick" / Carl Van Doren. A Magnificent Feeling / Charles Burchfield. Herman Melville / Thomas Moult. Who Is Melville? / Anonymous. Footnote to Bartlett's / Christopher Morley -- Academic Attention. Melville's Struggle with the Angel / Leon Howard. Moby-Dick: Work of Art / Walter E. Bezanson. Moby-Dick and the American West / Edwin Fussell. Moby-Dick: Line and Circle / John Seelye. Ishmael's Godly Gamesomeness: Selftaste and Rhetoric in Moby-Dick / Warwick Wadlington. "Loomings": Yarns and Figures in the Fabric / Harrison Hayford. Ahab Gets Girl, or Herman Melville Goes to the Movies / Edward Stone. The Madness of Ahab / Henry Nash Smith. Herman Melville and the Example of Sir Thomas Browne / Brian Foley. Moby-Dick and the Spirit of Revolution / Mark Niemeyer |
| Analysis |
English fiction |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-245) and index |
| Subject |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.
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Sea stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Whales in literature.
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Whaling in literature.
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| Author |
Hayes, Kevin J.
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| LC no. |
94013086 |
| ISBN |
0313287724 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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