A historical guide to Herman Melville / edited by Giles Gunn - New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. - viii, 262 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Herman Melville, 1819-1891 : a brief biography / Melville in his time -- Romantic answers, Victorian questions : cultural possibilities for Melville at midcentury / Melville and class / Melville and the marketplace / Without the pale : Melville and ethnic cosmopolitanism / "Wandering to-and-fro" : Melville and religion / Bibliographical essay / Giles Gunn -- Robert Milder -- Leon Chai -- Myra Jehlen -- Sheila Post -- Timothy Marr -- Emory Elliott -- Giles Gunn

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Novelists, American
Literature and History--History--United States

813 / GUN/A