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Melville's City

Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York
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Melville's City argues that Melville's relationship to the city was considerably more complex than has generally been believed. By placing him in the historical and cultural context of nineteenth-century New York, Kelley presents a Melville who borrowed from the colourful cultural variety of the city while at the same time investigating its darker and more dangerous social aspects. She shows that images both from Melville and from popular sources of the time represented New York variously as Capital, Labyrinth, City of Man and City of God and she goes on the demonstrate that he resisted a generalising or totalising representation of the city by revealing its hybrid identity and giving voice to the poor, the displaced and the racially excluded. Through close examination of works spanning Melville's career, Kelley forges an analysis of connections between urban and literary form.
Release date Australia
April 2nd, 2009
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  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
15 Halftones, unspecified
Pages
332
Dimensions
152x229x19
ISBN-13
9780521106726
Product ID
2946476

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