Research Catalog

Title

Moby-Dick / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.

Publication

• Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Additional Authors

Evans, Robert C., 1955-

Description

xiv, 305 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Critical insights

Uniform Title

Critical insights.

Subject

• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 > Criticism and interpretation
• Sea stories, American > History and criticism
• Whales in literature
• Whaling in literature

Note

• Edition statement supplied by publisher.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 14-8336

ISBN

• 9781619254053
• 1619254050

OCLC

887865912

Title

Moby-Dick / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.

Publisher

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2014]

Copyright Date

©2014

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and index.

Added Author

Evans, Robert C., 1955- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-8336