Death in Herman Melville's Fiction: Melville's "memento Mori"

by Corey Evan Thompson

Literary critics have aptly noted that death is arguably the most frequent topic, theme, or occurrence in all of American literature. Naturally, the works of such authors as Charles Brockden Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Shirley Jackson, and Stephen King, among countless others, go to great lengths to support this observation; however, the renowned nineteenth-century American literary giant Herman Melville, most famous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680531956
• ISBN13: 9781680531954
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Academica Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"