Otter, Samuel
Melville and Aesthetics
1. Introduction: Aesthetics and Melville
Samuel Otter, Geoffrey Sanborn
2. Blubber: Melville’s Bad Writing
Alex Calder
3. Melville’s Ornamentation: On Irrelevant Beauty
Theo Davis
4. Melvillean Provocation and the Critical Art of Devotion
Andrew Bois
5. Strange Sensations: Sex and Aesthetics in “The Counterpane”
Christopher Looby
6. Dead Bones and Honest Wonders: The Aesthetics of Natural Science in
Jennifer J. Baker
7. Pulled by the Line: Speed and Photography in
Laura Rigal
8.
Elizabeth Duquette
9. “The Silhouette of a Content”: “Bartleby” and American Literary Specificity
Nancy Ruttenburg
10. The Revolutionary Aesthetics of
Robert S. Levine
11. Theatricality, Strangeness, and the Aesthetics of Plurality in
Jennifer Greiman
12. Battle Music: Melville and the Forms of War
Peter Coviello
13. Melville’s Song of Songs:
Ilana Pardes
Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Literary Theory, North American Literature, Cultural Anthropology, Aesthetics, Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Editor
- Otter, Samuel
- Sanborn, Geoffrey
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2011
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 271 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230120044
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-29556-2