Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer

by Robert T. Tally Jr.

Book Overview

In Melville, Mapping and Globalization, Robert Tally argues that Melville does not belong in the tradition of the American Renaissance, but rather creates a baroque literary cartography, artistically engaging with spaces beyond the national model. At a time of intense national consolidation and cultural centralization, Melville discovered the postnational forces of an emerging world system, a system that has become our own in the era of globalization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441163212
• ISBN13: 9781441163219
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"