Moby Dick (Critical Insights) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1619254050 ISBN 13: 9781619254053

Publisher: Salem Pr Inc, 2014

Synopsis

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is often considered the greatest American novel - a vast epic that combines deep philosophy and high adventure as well as rich comedy and profound tragedy. 

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The book and author. On Moby-Dick / Joseph Csicsila -- Biography of Herman Melville / Jonathan D. Wright -- 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 -- 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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About the Editor

Robert C. Evans is I. B. Young Professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery, where he has taught since 1982. In 1984 he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he held Weaver and Whiting fellowships as well as a University fellowship. In later years his research was supported by fellowships from the Newberry Library, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Mellon Foundation, the Huntington Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
In 1982 he was awarded the G. E. Bentley Prize and in 1989 was selected Professor of the Year for Alabama by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. At AUM he has received the Faculty Excellence Award and has been named Distinguished Research Professor, Distinguished Teaching Professor, and University Alumni Professor. Most recently he was named Professor of the Year by the South Atlantic Association of Departments of English.
He is one of three editors of the Ben Jonson Journal and is a contributing editor to the John Donne Variorum Edition.
He is the author or editor of over fifty books (on such topics as Ben Jonson, Martha Moulsworth, Kate Chopin, John Donne, Frank O'Connor, Brian Friel, Ambrose Bierce, Amy Tan, early modern women writers, pluralist literary theory, literary criticism, twentieth-century American writers, American novelists, Shakespeare, and seventeenth-century English literature. He is also the author of roughly three hundred published or forthcoming essays or notes (in print and online) on a variety of topics, especially dealing with Renaissance literature, critical theory, women writers, short fiction, and literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Edition details

• Publisher: Salem Pr Inc
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1619254050
• ISBN 13: 9781619254053
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 305
• Editor: Evans Robert C.