A Companion to Herman Melville E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 1455

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville’s works in the twenty-first century.

• Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville
• Considers Melville in a global context, and looks at the impact of global economies and technologies on the way people read Melville
• Takes account of the latest and most sophisticated scholarship, including postcolonial and feminist perspectives
• Locates Melville in his cultural milieu, revising our views of his politics on race, gender and democracy
• Reveals Melville as a more contemporary writer than his critics have sometimes assumed

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CONTENTS

Cover

Title page

Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Texts and Abbreviations

Preface

Part I: Travels

1 A Traveling Life

References and Further Reading

2 Cosmopolitanism and Traveling Culture

Cosmopolitanism and American Literature

Melville in the Age of Travel

Traveling Culture in the Pacific

Comparative Cosmopolitanism in

Moby-Dick

The Cosmopolitan Muse: From

Moby-Dick

to James’s Cosmopolitan World – and Beyond

References and Further Reading

3 Melville’s World Readers

Writer for the World

American Melville

British Melville

Pacific and Caribbean Melville

European Melville

South American Melville

Asian Melville

Global Melville

References and Further Reading

4 Global Melville

Gone Global: Melville and the World “We” Live In

“One Cosmopolitan and Confident Tide”: Scenes of Globalization in Nineteenth-Century US Writing

Melville’s “Grand Principles” and America Among the Nations

Melville and the Newest (Dis)Course of American Studies

References and Further Reading

Part II: Geographies

5 Science and the Earth

Geological-Cosmological Imaginings: or, Digging toward Eternity

Natural History and the Post-Biblical World of Ruins

Aqueous Geographies: Fluidic Spaces and Ecofeminism

Conclusion: The Science of Charts and the Hubris of Representation

References and Further Reading

6 Ships, Whaling, and the Sea

Melville’s Voyages

Whaling

Storms and Calms

Melville’s Whaling Captains

Melville’s Naval Leaders

Conclusion

References and Further Reading

7 Pacific Paradises

References and Further Reading

8 Atlantic Trade

Israel Potter

and the Tides of the Atlantic

“Benito Cereno” and the Specter of the Atlantic

Billy Budd

and the Rights of Man

Coda:

Redburn

and the Wealth of Nations

References and Further Reading

9 Ancient Lands

Introduction

Two Hieroglyphic Scenes

Iconographies

Desert Mythology: Architecture of Belief and Unbelief

Consciousness: Landscape as Protagonist

Transformed Icons

References

Part III: Nations

10 Democracy and its Discontents

References and Further Reading

11 Urbanization, Class Struggle, and Reform

Urbanization

Reforming Cities

Tropical Versions of Urban Problems

Cities, Ships, and Jails

Writing Reform

The City and the Country

References and Further Reading

12 Wicked Books: Melville and Religion

Typee

: “Elasticity of Mind”

Moby-Dick

: “Wicked Book”

Clarel

: Jerusalem’s “Blank, Blank Towers”

Coda: “To-and-Fro”

References and Further Reading

13 Pierre's Bad Associations: Public Life in the Institutional Nation

References and Further Reading

14 Melville, Slavery, and the American Dilemma

Slavery and the American Dilemma

Melville and Slavery

The Problem of Utopia

Monomania and Immediatism

The Problem of Progress

The Costs of Freedom

References and Further Reading

15 Gender and Sexuality

Melville and Heterosexuality

Melville and Masculinity

Melville and Homosexuality

Part IV: Libraries

16 The Legacy of Britain

From English Renaissance to the “American Renaissance”

Shakespeare: Kingly Tragedy, the Drama of Human Nature, and the Politics of Empire

Milton: Free Will, Satanic Revenge, and Civil War

Sir Thomas Browne’s Marvelous Travel Narratives, Speculative Gamesmanship, and Acknowledgement of the Insurgent World of Spirit

References and Further Reading

Romantic Philosophy, Transcendentalism, and Nature:

Romanticism’s Contradictions and Nondualities

Transcendentalism

Politics and the Individual

Melville’s Romantic Legacy

References and Further Reading

18 Literature of Exploration and the Sea

Exploration

Sea Fiction

Sea Lyrics

“In Ocean Sand”: The Timoneer

References and Further Reading

19 Death and Literature: Melville and the Epitaph

References and Further Reading

20 The Company of Women Authors

References and Further Reading

21 Hawthorne and Race

Hawthorne, Melville, and the Critics

The “Blackness of Darkness” and “Hawthorne and His Mosses”

“Hawthorne: A Problem”: Blackness and

The House of the Seven Gables

Moby-Dick

,

Pierre

, and Miscegenated Selfhood

References and Further Reading

22 “Unlike Things Must Meet and Mate”: Melville and the Visual Arts

1

2

3

4

References and Further Reading

Part V: Texts

23 The Motive for Metaphor:

Typee

,

Omoo

, and

Mardi

“The Most Ferocious Animal on the Face of the Earth”

“One Is Judged by the Company He Keeps”

“Something in Me That Could Not Be Hidden”

References and Further Reading

24 Artist at Work:

Redburn

,

White

-

Jacket

,

Moby-Dick

, and

Pierre

Redburn

: “A narrative like mine”

White-Jacket:

“To return to the gig.”

Moby-Dick

: “Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.”

Pierre

: “I write precisely as I please”

References and Further Reading

25 The Language of

Moby-Dick

: “Read It If You Can”

Literary History (“By Way of Variety”)

Culture (“Parts of the Times”)

Theory (“Which Language Cannot Paint”)

A Final Word (“Slobgollion”)

References and Further Reading

26 Threading the Labyrinth:

Moby-Dick

as Hybrid Epic

References and Further Reading

27 The Female Subject in

Pierre

and

The Piazza Tales

References and Further Reading

28 Narrative Shock in “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,” and “Benito Cereno”

“Bartleby, the Scrivener”

“The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids”

“Benito Cereno”

References and Further Reading

29 Fluid Identity in

Israel Potter

and

The Confidence-Man

Introduction: Nature and the Nation

Israel Potter

: Fluid Identifications in the Patriotic Market

Confidence, Commerce, and Contingent Identity

Conclusion: Market Resistance

References and Further Reading

30 How

Clarel

Works

Words and Stones

Meter, Rhyme, and Division

The “Heart” of

Clarel

References and Further Reading

31 Melville the Realist Poet

References and Further Reading

32 Melville’s Transhistorical Voice:

Billy Budd, Sailor

and the Fragmentation of Forms

From “Billy in the Darbies” to the Handsome Sailor

Genesis: Making “Ragged Edges”

“A Quizzing Sort of Look”: The Dynamics of Reading

The Narrator’s Transhistorical Reach

Vere’s “Directness”: The Fragmentation of “Measured Forms”

References and Further Reading

Part VI: Meanings

33 The Melville Revival

Avant-garde

Grand Recognition

Critical Inquiry and Investigation

No Trust

References and Further Reading

34 Creating Icons: Melville in Visual Media and Popular Culture

Melville and Popular Visual Culture

Melville and Fine Art

Intersections of Pop Culture and Fine Art: Politics, Race, Nature, Gender

References and Further Reading

35 The Melville Text

Text as Words and Wording

Editing Melville

The Melville Text in the Digital Age

References and Further Reading

Melville Editions (In Chronological Order)

Index

End User License Agreement

List of Illustrations

Chapter 08

Figure 8.1 Notary Protection Certificate, issued to mariner Andrew Boteler by New York State, May 17, 1796. Like other Seamen's Protections, this document was designed to affirm the citizenship of an American sailor, although in practice many protections went unhonored. Image courtesy of the G. W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT.

Chapter 22

Figure 22.1 J.C. Edwards after Clarkson Stanfield. Title vignette for the 1836 edition of The Pirate and the Three Cutters by Captain Frederick Marryat (London: Longman & Company, and Philadelphia: Desilba, Thomas & Company). 31õõ/2 × 41õõ/4 in. Melville Memorial Room, Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, MA.

Figure 22.2 R.Brandard after J.M.W. Turner. Snow Storm – Steam-Boat. Engraved for The Turner Gallery, 1859. 77 õõ/ 8 × 10 in. Melville Memorial Room, Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, MA.

Figure 22.3 Rectangular Persian tile with figure of horseman and huma. Composite body, molded and underglaze painted. Qajar period, mid-19th century. 131õõ/2 × 103õõ/4 in. Berkshire Historical Society at Arrowhead, Pittsfield, MA.

Figure 22.4 F. Vivares and William Woollett after Claude Lorrain.

The Enchanted Castle

. Published by Susanna Vivares, March 12, 1782. 16

1

õõ/

2

× 22

3

õõ/

8

in. Private collection.

Chapter 30

Figure 30.1 This image, the title plate in the second edition of Piranesi's Carceri, is reproduced from a volume that probably was part of the nineteenth-century Astor Library, whose reference collections were open to the public during the years Melville lived in New York and worked on Clarel. Photo: Art & Architecture Collections, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

Chapter 34

Figure 34.1 George Klauba.

The Castaway

(2004). Acrylic on panel. 18 14 5 in.

Figure 34.2 Mark Milloff.

Stripping the Whale

(2003). Pastel on paper. 75 50 in.

Figure 34.3 Kathleen Piercefield.

Queequeg in His Own Person

(2004). Monotype, collagraph, polymer-plate lithography, etching, and hand-coloring on canvas. 96 40 in.

Figure 34.4 Ellen Driscoll. From sketches for

Ahab's Wife

(1998). Ink on paper. 11 8 5 in.

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A COMPANION TO HERMAN MELVILLE

EDITED BY WYN KELLEY

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A companion to Herman Melville / edited by Wyn Kelley.  p. cm. — (Blackwell companions to literature and culture; 41) Includes bibliographical references and index.

 ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-2231-3 (alk. paper) 978-1-119-04527-4 (paperback) ISBN-10: 1-4051-2231-5 (alk. paper) 1-119-04527-4 (paperback)1. Melville, Herman, 1819–1891.—Criticism and interpretation—Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Kelley, Wyn. II. Series. PS2387.C66 2006 813′.3—dc22

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Cover image: George Klauba, The Chase, 2005. Acrylic on panel, 18 × 14.5”. Courtesy of Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago.

Herman Melville by Joseph O. Eaton, 1870. Reprinted by permission of the Houghton Library, Harvard University

For Dale Peterson

Illustrations

Frontispiece Herman Melville by Joseph O. Eaton, 1870

8.1

Notary Protection Certificate, 1796

22.1

J. C. Edwards after Clarkson Stanfield. Title vignette for the 1836 edition of

The Pirate and The Three Cutters

by Captain Frederick Marryat

22.2

R. Brandard after J. M. W. Turner.

Snow Storm – Steam-Boat

22.3

Rectangular Persian tile with the figure of horseman and

huma

22.4

F. Vivares and William Woollett after Claude Lorrain.

The Enchanted Castle

30.1

Giovanni Battista Piranesi,

Carceri

, title plate

34.1

George Klauba.

The Castaway

(2004)

34.2

Mark Milloff.

Stripping the Whale

(2003)

34.3

Kathleen Piercefield.

Queequeg in His Own Person

(2004)

34.4

Ellen Driscoll. From sketches for

Ahab’s Wife

(1998)

Notes on Contributors

Charlene Avallone writes as an independent scholar based in Kailua, Hawai’i, having served on the faculties of the universities of Notre Dame and Hawai’i. She sits on the editorial board of Leviathan and, with Carolyn Karcher, co-directed the Fourth International Melville Conference, Melville and the Pacific, on Maui in 2003. Her publications treat Margaret Fuller and Catharine Sedgwick in addition to Melville, as well as the gender and racial limitations of the American renaissance critical tradition. Her work in progress studies the feminization of conversation in the US (1770 to 1870). Forthcoming essays include “Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and the Discipline of Conversation” in Re-inventing the Peabody Sisters (edited by Katharine Rodier, Julie Hall, and Monika Elbert).

Mary K. Bercaw Edwards is a past president of the Melville Society and an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut. She teaches primarily for the Maritime Studies degree program. Bercaw Edwards is the author of (1987) and the co-editor of Wilson Heflin’s (2004). In addition to teaching, Bercaw Edwards works at Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea. She sets sails aboard the whaleship , the only extant whaleship in the world, which was built in the same town as, and only six months after, Melville’s first whaleship, the .