Maurice S. Lee: Herman Melville | Taschenbuch

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Best known as the author of Moby-Dick (1851), Herman Melville is one of America's greatest writers. His achievements range from popular novels and experimental fiction to powerful poetry. His works are tragic and funny, impassioned and ironic, obsessed with philosophical seeking and attuned to the details of everyday life. Melville engaged the pressing issues of his day, from economic inequality and the American slavery crisis to the rise of science and the fragility of democracy. He dwelled on timeless questions about loneliness and intimacy, moral and political responsibility, the limits of our knowledge and agency, and the place of human beings within nature and the cosmos.

Melville's life was dramatic, and his career improbable. He was born into privilege, fell into poverty as an adolescent, hunted whales and lived with the Tai Pi people of Polynesia, served in the United States Navy, skyrocketed to fame as a novelist, ruined his career by challenging religious, political, sexual, and artistic conventions, reinvented himself as a poet, and died in relative obscurity just as readers began to appreciate his genius. The scope and diversity of Melville's literature reflects an artist of restless ambition. Herman Melville: A Very Short Introduction helps readers explore the richness of his work.

Über den Autor

Maurice S. Lee is Professor of English at Boston University. He specializes in nineteenth-century American literature and has written several books on how literature relates to such topics as slavery and philosophy, science and chance, and the information revolution of the nineteenth century. Professor Lee has received awards from the Melville Society, Poe Studies Association, and the Association of College and Research Libraries, as well as fellowships from the NEH, ACLS, and Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter 1

A Brief Biography

Chapter 2

Truth, Sex, and Empire: The Pacific Island Novels

Chapter 3

A Moving World: Redburn and White-Jacket

Chapter 4

Four Reasons for Going to Sea in Moby-Dick

Chapter 5

Antagonisms: Pierre, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man

Chapter 6:

Melville's Magazine Fiction

Chapter 7

Pushed and Pulled to Poetry

A Ragged Conclusion: Billy Budd

References

Further Reading

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2026
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sprachwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Very Short Introductions
ISBN-13:	9780197753057
ISBN-10:	0197753051
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Lee, Maurice S.
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press OUP USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen:	10 black and white illustrations
Maße:	171 x 107 x 9 mm
Von/Mit:	Maurice S. Lee
Erscheinungsdatum:	26.02.2026
Gewicht:	0,126 kg