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| Genre/Form: | Congresses |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Melville's evermoving dawn. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c1997 (OCoLC)605101641 |
| Named Person: | Herman Melville; Herman Melville; Herman Melville; Herman Melville |
| Material Type: | Conference publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Bryant; Robert Milder; Melville Society. |
| ISBN: | 0873385624 9780873385626 |
| OCLC Number: | 35305201 |
| Notes: | "The essays in this volume are the partial fruit of three separate celebrations arranged by the Melville Society in honor of the 1991 centennial of Melville's death ..."--Pref. |
| Description: | xviii, 419 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Persistence of Melville: representative writer for a multicultural age / John Bryant -- Herman Melville: uncommon common sailor / Walter E. Bezanson -- Whose book is Moby-Dick? / Merton M. Sealts -- Melville and the question of American decolonization / Lawrence Buell -- Reading the incomplete / Wai Chee Dimock -- Our crowd, their crowd: race, reader, and Moby-Dick / David Bradley -- Slavery and empire: Melville's "Benito Cereno" / H. Bruce Franklin -- Shadow and veil: Melville and modern black consciousness / Arnold Rampersad -- Melville; or, aggression / Richard H. Brodhead -- "Counter natures in mankind": Hebraism and Hellenism in Clarel / Shirley M. Dettlaff -- Biographers on biography: a panel discussion / Participants: Stanton Garner ... [et al.] -- Lost Poems (1860) and Melville's first urge to write an epic poem / Hershel Parker -- Herman Melville and the customs service / Stanton Garner -- Manuscript, edition, revision: reading Typee with trifocals / John Bryant -- Melvile revises "Art" / Robert C. Ryan -- Imagining Pierre: reading the extra-illustrated Melville / Jean Ashton -- Text of Melville in the twenty-first century / G. Thomas Tanselle -- Overwrought landscape of Pierre / Samuel Otter -- Pierre, Kavanagh, and the Unitarian perplex / John Seelye -- Pierre in a labyrinth: the mysteries and miseries of New York / Wyn Kelley. |
| Responsibility: | edited by John Bryant and Robert Milder. |
Abstract:
Melville's Evermoving Dawn contains some of the best writing and thinking on Melville today. Represented here are scholars young and old, traditionalists and new historicists, who gathered at several conferences and venues throughout 1991, the centennial of Herman Melville's death. Meetings occured in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (where Melville wrote Moby-Dick, Pierre, and other works), New York City during Melville week (Sept. 22-28), and Washington, DC, at the Theater of the National Archives. The essays survey the past and present of Melville studies and suggest directions for the future.
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