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Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby the scrivener, and other tales / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, Bartleby the scrivener, and other tales / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. [1555460097 (alk. paper) : ] New York : Chelsea House, 1987.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PS2387 .H44 1987

Prologue to Herman Melville's "Bartleby" / Jorge Luis Borges -- Melville's Parable of the walls / Leo Marx -- "Certain phenomenal men": the example of Billy Budd / Warner Berthoff -- Melville's fist: the execution of Billy Budd / Barbara Johnson -- Suspense and tautology in "Benito Cereno" / Eric J. Sundquist -- Melville and the slavery of the north / Michael Paul Rogin -- Witches and Wall Street \: possession is nine-tenths of the law / Michael Clark.

tagged melville by walther ...on 01-FEB-07

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To wake the nations : race in the making of American literature / Eric J. Sundquist.

Sundquist, Eric J.. To wake the nations : race in the making of American literature / Eric J. Sundquist. [0674893301 (acid-free paper) :] Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PS153.N5 S9 1993

An opening discussion of Nat Turner's "Confessions," recorded by a white man, Thomas Gray, establishes a paradigm for the complexity of meanings that Sundquist analyzes in American literary texts. Focusing on Frederick Douglass's autobiographical books, Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, Martin Delany's novel Blake; or the Huts of America, Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, Charles Chesnutt's fiction, and W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk and Darkwater,

tagged chesnutt melville twain race by walther ...on 03-JAN-07

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Tradition counter tradition : love and the form of fiction / Joseph Allen Boone.

Boone, Joseph Allen..Tradition counter tradition : love and the form of fiction / Joseph Allen Boone. [0226064646] Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PR830.L69 B6 1987

Ideology of love and marriage: Golden Bowl, Moby-Dick, Sea Wolf, Country of the pointed Fir

tagged henry_james melville by walther ...on 03-JAN-07

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Writing the American classics / edited by James Barbour and Tom Quirk.

Writing the American classics / edited by James Barbour and Tom Quirk. [0807818968 (alk. paper)] Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1990.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PS88 .W7 1990

history of the creation of: Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, Professor's House, Native Son, et al

tagged cather melville richard_wright twain by walther ...on 02-JAN-07

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Marx and modern fiction / Edward J. Ahearn.

Ahearn, Edward J.. Marx and modern fiction / Edward J. Ahearn. [0300043562 (alk. paper)] New Haven : Yale University Press, c1989.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PS374.S7 A37 1989

moby-dick Balzac Golden Bowl Jane Austen Faulkner

Avoiding the reduction of the psychological and sexual to the ideological and the economic, Ahearn deals with three pairs of novels--Pride and Prejudice and Madame Bovary; The Golden Bowl and Ulysses; and Old Goriot and Absalom, Absalom! and Moby-Dick as an attempt at liberation from the "mutual joint-stock world" of modern capitalism. Ahearn's reading of these novels looks at narrative form, racial and sexual themes, and the primal or unconscious (even the religious) dimensions of these novels. Never losing the link between fiction and history, however Ahearn sees Moby-Dick's "impulse to leave the realm of the sociohistorical" as impossible and argues that Melville's attempted transformations of ideology and economics into other spheres of life are never complete. Fascinating readings emerge--e.g., linking Vautrin's rebellious dream of power with the activity of Faulkner's Sutpen

tagged balzac melville by walther ...on 02-JAN-07

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Whence Come You, Queequeg?

Sanborn, Geoffrey "Whence Come You, Queequeg?" American literature [0002-9831] 77.2 (2005). 227-.