Cody Marrs, Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies. An Aesthetics in All Things

Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies sensitively analyzes both what beauty is for Herman Melville and also what beauty does to some of his characters, narrators, or poetic voices, particularly in three of his works: Timoleon (the focus of chapter 1), Weeds and Wildings (Chapter 2), and M...

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1. Verfasser: Andrés, Rodrigo
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: European journal of American studies 2024
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Zusammenfassung:Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies sensitively analyzes both what beauty is for Herman Melville and also what beauty does to some of his characters, narrators, or poetic voices, particularly in three of his works: Timoleon (the focus of chapter 1), Weeds and Wildings (Chapter 2), and Moby-Dick (chapter 3). If the corpus selected and its organization within the book might seem initially odd—different genres, different moments (and not chronologically arranged) both in the 19th ce...