176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
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Melville's Monumental Imagination explores the connection between the contested 19th century American monument tradition and one of the nation's most revered authors, Herman Melville (1819-1891). The book was written to fill a void in recent Melville scholarship. To date, there has not been a monograph that focuses exclusively on Melville's incorporation of monuments in his fictional world. The... Read more
Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Melville's Monumental Mind2. Peeping into Polynesian Memorials: Ekphrastic Indifference in Travel and Typee3. Plodding through Mardi's Mazes and Monuments: The Imaginary Voyage into Ekphrastic Hope4. Redburn and The Realistic Journey of Ekphrastic Fear5. Fast Fish, Fluid Forms, and Moby-Dick6. Pierre and Israel Potter: Fragments, Fissures, and Forgotten Heroes in Stone and PrintBibliographyIndex
Biography
Ian S. Maloney serves as Assistant Professor of English at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, NY. His research interests are in American culture and literature, and particularly in interdisciplinary studies. He received his Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2004.
