After the Whale: Melville in the Wake of Moby-Dick

by Clark Davis

Book Overview

Contextualizes Herman Melville's short fiction and poetry by studying it in the company of the more familiar fiction of the 1850s era

The study focuses on Melville's vision of the purpose and function of language from Moby-Dick through Billy Budd with a special emphasis on how language--in function and form--follows and depends on the function and form of the body, how Melville's attitude toward words echoes his attitude...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817307745
• ISBN13: 9780817307745
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"