Melville and Aesthetics

Title:

ISBN:

9780230120044

Edition:

1st ed. 2011.

Publication Information New:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Physical Description:

VIII, 263 p. 3 illus. online resource.

Abstract:

In an original and provocative series of readings that range across Melville's career, the contributors consider not only the sources and implications of Melville's aesthetics, but the relationship between aesthetic criticism, historical analysis, and contemporary theory.

Subject Term:

Fiction.

Literature -- Philosophy.

America -- Literatures.

Ethnology.

Aesthetics.

Literature, Modern -- 19th century.

Fiction Literature.

Literary Theory.

North American Literature.

Sociocultural Anthropology.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.