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Item Details
Title:
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MELVILLE'S CITY
LITERARY AND URBAN FORM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY NEW YORK |
By: |
Wyn Kelley, Albert Gelpi, Ross Posnock |
Format: |
Hardback |

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£90.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0521560543 |
ISBN 13: |
9780521560542 |
Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
26 July, 1996 |
Series: |
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture No.100 |
Pages: |
332 |
Description: |
Through an examination of Melville's works, Kelley forges an analysis of connections between urban and literary form. |
Synopsis: |
Melville's City argues that Melville's relationship to the city was considerably more complex than has generally been believed. By placing him in the historical and cultural context of nineteenth-century New York, Kelley presents a Melville who borrowed from the colourful cultural variety of the city while at the same time investigating its darker and more dangerous social aspects. She shows that images both from Melville and from popular sources of the time represented New York variously as Capital, Labyrinth, City of Man and City of God and she goes on the demonstrate that he resisted a generalising or totalising representation of the city by revealing its hybrid identity and giving voice to the poor, the displaced and the racially excluded. Through close examination of works spanning Melville's career, Kelley forges an analysis of connections between urban and literary form. |
Illustrations: |
15 b/w illus. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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