The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 August 2025
- ISBN 9780198864912
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages624 pages
- Size 255x180x40 mm
- Weight 1244 g
- Language English 759
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Short description:
This comprehensive Handbook of Melville aims to reintroduce readers to a writer whom they think they know well by re-examining his entire corpus--the novels, short prose, and poetry--in light of the diversity and vibrancy of global Melville studies.
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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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Melville's Third Century
Part I. Critical and Textual Histories
"Copyright, 1892, by Elizabeth S. Melville": Rethinking the Field Formation of Melville Studies
"For Ever Slides Away": Melville and Critical Theory
Clarel the Saracen: Historical Romance, Islam, and the Medieval
Melville and English Renaissance Writing
Constructing Timoleon Etc. and "The Great Pyramid"
Part II. Sexualities and Genders
Comings out: Non-Normative Domesticities in "The Apple-Tree Table"
"Capabilities of Enjoyment": Melville's Use of Pleasure
Men at Sea: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Herman Melville
Part III. Indigeneities and Colonialisms
Comparative Indigeneities/Comparative Colonialisms Across Melville's Career: Queequeg, Hunilla, Ungar, and the Queen of Sheba
Melville and American Solitude: A Settler-Colonial Poetics
Indian-Hating: Ontological Anthropology, Indigenous Knowledges, and The Confidence-Man
Part IV. Races and Forms of Racialization
"Great Curse that of Babel": Translating Revolution in "Benito Cereno"
Dispensable Labor and Racialization Aboard the Pequod
"Becoming" Black in Billy Budd, Sailor
A Sort of Crutch: Race and Prosthesis in "Benito Cereno"
Part V. Politics and Economics
"Perplexities of State": Melville, Democracy, Regulation
Veridiction and the Democratic State of Exception in Billy Budd
Inscrutable Malice: Moby Dick and the Resistance to Capital
The Point of Interest: Economics and Aesthetics in The Confidence-Man
Part VI. Geographies and Histories
Melville's Raft Books: Finding the Way in Mardi and Moby-Dick
Genealogies, Geographies, and Genres: Placing Isabel, Placing Pierre
"Portuguese Vengeance": Melville's Narrative of Empire and Resistance
Battle-Pieces and the Paratexts of History
Part VII. Ecologies and Energies
Typee and Trees
Moby-Dick and the Political Ecology of the Stranded Whale
Melville's Foams
Melville, Energy, and the Anthropocene
Part VIII. Aesthetics and Poetics
Battle-Pieces and the Problem of Beauty
Battle-Pieces and Melville's Poetics of Noise
Hermes' Gift: Melville, Classical Antiquity, and the Nonhuman
Part IX. Philosophies
Command in Melville
Melville's Ark: Modernity, Reality, and the Great Art of Telling the Truth
Emersonian Isabel: On Thinking and Wonder in Pierre
Herman Melville's Pessimist Verse: James Thomson and Timoleon, Etc.
Afterword: Melville, the Sorcerer
