Melville and Aesthetics

by Samuel Otter and Geoffrey Sanborn

This groundbreaking collection of essays represents Herman Melville as an artist for whom questions of sensation, pleasure, and form cannot be separated from philosophical and political concerns. Contributors offer original and provocative readings that span Melville's career and engage the resurgence of interest among literary scholars in aesthetics. The first of its kind, this collection returns us to the particularities of Melville's extraordinarily...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230113796
• ISBN13: 9780230113794
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"