Gothic Melville
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Gothic Melville

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Gothic Melville

About this book

In a famous review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse, Herman Melville took the critics to task for missing the darkness as the heart of Hawthorne's writing – a blackness 'ten times black', as Melville put it, that fascinated him. Ironically, Melville has been subject to the same treatment by critics who have in large measure steered clear of Melville's own darkness. The contributors to Gothic Melville reveal that, if Hawthorne's darkness is ten times black, then Melville's is a hundred times so, as his works repeatedly raise questions about what the truth is or if truth exists at all.

This edited collection of scholarly essays makes up for the critical neglect of Melville's Gothicism by arguing that the Gothic is so extensively interwoven into the fabric of his writing that Melville must at last be recognised as among the genre's most important practitioners.

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Yes, you can access Gothic Melville by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Monika Elbert, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock,Monika Elbert in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & North American History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
University of Wales Press
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781837721474
eBook ISBN
9781837721498
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
North American History
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Notes on Contributors
  6. Introduction: Dead, Blind Walls: Melville’s Gothicism Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Monika Elbert
  7. Part I: Ecogothic
  8. Part II: Bodies as Matter
  9. Part III: Democracy and Tyranny
  10. Part IV: Gender and Gothic Relationships
  11. Notes