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Herman Melville, Moby Dick by Nick Selby; Richard Beynon is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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The huge range of critical and academic debate about this monster of a novel confirms "Moby-Dick"'s status as a vital and exhilarating exploration of the role of American ideology in defining modern consciousness. This "Columbia Critical Guide" starts with extracts from Melville's own letters and essays and from early reviews of "Moby-Dick" that set the terms for later critical evaluations. Subsequent chapters deal with the "Melville Revival" of the 1920s and the novel's central place in the est
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- Author
- Nick Selby; Richard Beynon
- Publisher
- New York: Columbia University Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231115391
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, History
- Rating
- 3.63 / 5 (300 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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