Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance

by John Bryant

Book Overview

John Bryant's book is a strong and significant argument for the centrality of the comic and repose in Melville's novels. The purpose of Melville and Repose is dual: to ground the uses of romantic humor in Melville in sensitive readings of contemporaneous European and American writings, and to offer a definitive account of the comic as the shaping force of Melville's narrative voice throughout the major phase of his literary career. Bryant argues that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195077822
• ISBN13: 9780195077827
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"