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Melville's Short Novels: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism

Melville's Short Novels: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism

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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.

Author: Herman Melville
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/28/2001
Series: Norton Critical Editions #0
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.19w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9780393976410
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