The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-886491-2 (ISBN)
Now more than a century since the revival that placed Herman Melville at the center of the US literary canon, his work stands as one of the most important touchstones of world literature. The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville aims to reintroduce readers to a writer whom they think they know well by re-examining Melville's entire corpus--the novels, short prose, and poetry--in light of the diversity and vibrancy of global Melville studies.
Bringing together the most innovative work of international scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville offers a comprehensive survey of both Melville's writing and the new approaches it continues to introduce into literary studies. By engaging urgent discourses such as those around indigeneity and race, ecology and energy, gender and sexuality studies, and reimagining well-developed critical approaches to questions of literary history, politics, war, economics, aesthetics, and philosophy in Melville's work, this Handbook seeks to push the study of Melville's work into its second century. Attending to Melville's origins--biographical and textual, intellectual and aesthetic, historical and political--the Handbook also examines Melville's currency and contemporaneity, the ways that his writing continues to generate new thought and new art. This volume, in short, endeavors to present a new critical Melville for new critical times.
Jennifer Greiman is Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Institute at Wake Forest University. She specializes in 18th- and 19th-century Atlantic literatures, democratic theory, and the work of Herman Melville. Her latest book, Melville's Democracy: Radical Figuration and Political Form, was published in 2023. She is also the author of Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing (2010), co-editor of The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire (2013), and Associate editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. Michael Jonik teaches American literature and critical theory at the University of Sussex. He has published Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman (Cambridge 2018), and writes on pre-1900 American literature, continental philosophy, politics, and the history of science. He has held fellowships at the Cornell Society for the Humanities and the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies, and won research grants from the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is founding member of The British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, and Reviews and Special Issues editor for the journal Textual Practice.
Chapter 1: Jennifer Greiman and Michael Jonik: Introduction: Melville's Third Century
Part I. Critical and Textual Histories
Chapter 2: Adam Fales and Jordan Alexander Stein: "Copyright, 1892, by Elizabeth S. Melville": Rethinking the Field Formation of Melville Studies
Chapter 3: Stuart Burrows: "For Ever Slides Away": Melville and Critical Theory
Chapter 4: Michael Jonik: Clarel the Saracen: Historical Romance, Islam, and the Medieval
Chapter 5: Andrew Hadfield: Melville and English Renaissance Writing
Chapter 6: Samuel Otter: Constructing Timoleon Etc. and "The Great Pyramid"
Part II. Sexualities and Genders
Chapter 7: Rodrigo Andrés: Comings out: Non-Normative Domesticities in "The Apple-Tree Table"
Chapter 8: Édouard Marsoin: "Capabilities of Enjoyment": Melville's Use of Pleasure
Chapter 9: Shirley Samuels: Men at Sea: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Herman Melville
Part III. Indigeneities and Colonialisms
Chapter 10: Brian Yothers: Comparative Indigeneities/Comparative Colonialisms Across Melville's Career: Queequeg, Hunilla, Ungar, and the Queen of Sheba
Chapter 11: Nicholas Spengler: Melville and American Solitude: A Settler-Colonial Poetics
Chapter 12: Kiron Ward: Indian-Hating: Ontological Anthropology, Indigenous Knowledges, and The Confidence-Man
Part IV. Races and Forms of Racialization
Chapter 13: Mary Grace Albanese: "Great Curse that of Babel": Translating Revolution in "Benito Cereno"
Chapter 14: James Gerard Noel: Dispensable Labor and Racialization Aboard the Pequod
Chapter 15: Lenora Warren: "Becoming" Black in Billy Budd, Sailor
Chapter 16: Peter Boxall: A Sort of Crutch: Race and Prosthesis in "Benito Cereno"
Part V. Politics and Economics
Chapter 17: Cécile Roudeau: "Perplexities of State": Melville, Democracy, Regulation
Chapter 18: Stephen W. Sawyer: Veridiction and the Democratic State of Exception in Billy Budd
Chapter 19: Paul Downes: Inscrutable Malice: Moby Dick and the Resistance to Capital
Chapter 20: Chad M. Luck: The Point of Interest: Economics and Aesthetics in The Confidence-Man
Part VI. Geographies and Histories
Chapter 21: Alex Calder: Melville's Raft Books: Finding the Way in Mardi and Moby-Dick
Chapter 22: Thomas Massnick and Brigitte Fielder: Genealogies, Geographies, and Genres: Placing Isabel, Placing Pierre
Chapter 23: Wyn Kelley: "Portuguese Vengeance": Melville's Narrative of Empire and Resistance
Chapter 24: Jill Spivey Caddell: Battle-Pieces and the Paratexts of History
Part VII. Ecologies and Energies
Chapter 25: Melissa Gniadek: Typee and Trees
Chapter 26: Peter Riley: Moby-Dick and the Political Ecology of the Stranded Whale
Chapter 27: Tom Nurmi: Melville's Foams
Chapter 28: Jeffrey Insko: Melville, Energy, and the Anthropocene
Part VIII. Aesthetics and Poetics
Chapter 29: Cody Marrs: Battle-Pieces and the Problem of Beauty
Chapter 30: Katie McGettigan: Battle-Pieces and Melville's Poetics of Noise
Chapter 31: Ronan Ludot-Vlasak: Hermes' Gift: Melville, Classical Antiquity, and the Nonhuman
Part IX. Philosophies
Chapter 32: Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz: Command in Melville
Chapter 33: K. L. Evans: Melville's Ark: Modernity, Reality, and the Great Art of Telling the Truth
Chapter 34: Dominic Mastroianni: Emersonian Isabel: On Thinking and Wonder in Pierre
Chapter 35: Paul Hurh: Herman Melville's Pessimist Verse: James Thomson and Timoleon, Etc.
Chapter 36: Branka Arsi'c: Afterword: Melville, the Sorcerer
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.08.2025 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Handbooks |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 180 x 255 mm |
| Gewicht | 1244 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-886491-4 / 0198864914 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-886491-2 / 9780198864912 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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