Bibliograph

A reader's guide to Herman Melville, James E. Miller, Jr

Type

Label

A reader's guide to Herman Melville, James E. Miller, Jr

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-257) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A reader's guide to Herman Melville

Nature of contents

handbooksbibliography

Oclc number

273484

Responsibility statement

James E. Miller, Jr

Series statement

Noonday reader's guide series, N221

Table Of Contents

The complex figure in Melville's carpet -- Typee and Omoo: the quest for the garden -- Mardi: the search for innocence -- Redburn and White Jacket: initiation and baptism -- Moby Dick: the grand hooded phantom -- Pierre: the flowing river in the cave of man -- Israel Potter: survival in the desert -- Tales and sketches: withdrawals and reconciliations -- The Confidence-Man: a comic masquerade -- Clarel: cross bearers all -- Billy Budd: the catastrophe of innocence -- The figure retraced -- The quest for form

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