Download or read book Alcohol in the Writings of Herman Melville written by Corey Evan Thompson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early to mid-19th century America, there were growing debates concerning the social acceptability of alcohol and its consumption. Temperance reformers publicly decried the evils of liquor, and America's greatest authors began to write works of temperance fiction, stories that urged Americans to refrain from imbibing. Herman Melville was born in an era when drunkenness was part of daily life for American men but came of age at a time when the temperance movement had gained social and literary momentum. This first full-length analysis of alcohol and intoxication in Melville's novels, short fiction and poetry shows how he entered the debate in the latter half of the 19th century. Throughout his work he cautions readers to avoid alcohol and consistently illustrates negative outcomes of drinking.
Download or read book Herman Melville written by Corey Evan Thompson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work covers both Herman Melville's life and writings. It includes a biography and detailed information on his works, on the important themes contained therein, and on the significant people and places in his life. The appendices include suggestions for further reading of both literary and cultural criticism, an essay on Melville's lasting cultural influence, and information on both the fictional ships in his works and the real-life ones on which he sailed.
Download or read book The Works of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Herman Melville written by Raychel Haugrud Reiff and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2008 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A biography of writer Herman Melville that describes his era, his major works--especially Moby Dick, his life, and the legacy of his writing"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Works of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death in Herman Melville s Fiction written by Corey Evan Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary critics have aptly noted that death is arguably the most frequent topic, theme, or occurrence in all of American literature. Naturally, the works of such authors as Charles Brockden Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Shirley Jackson, and Stephen King, among countless others, go to great lengths to support this observation; however, the renowned nineteenth-century American literary giant Herman Melville, most famous as the author of Moby Dick, has been frequently overlooked. In this book, seasoned literary scholar Corey Evan Thompson seeks to remedy this oversight. Death in Herman Melville's Fiction: Melville's "Memento Mori" is the first full-length study to examine the ubiquity and implications of death in Melville's prose fiction. As Thompson shows, death occurs in all of Melville's novels and much of his shorter fiction by various means. Not only is death a frequent occurrence in Melville's fiction, but his characters die regardless of age, health, social status, or moral character. Drawing from his father's death, Melville's fiction provides his readers with the difficult realization that it is the inevitable destination for everyone who is on this journey called life.
Download or read book I Would Prefer Not To written by Herman Melville and published by Pushkin Collection. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new selection of Melville's darkest and most enthralling stories in a beautiful Pushkin Collection edition Includes "Bartleby, the Scrivener", "Benito Cereno" and "The Lightning-Rod Man" A lawyer hires a new copyist, only to be met with stubborn, confounding resistance. A nameless guide discovers hidden worlds of luxury and bleak exploitation. After boarding a beleaguered Spanish slave ship, an American trader's cheerful outlook is repeatedly shadowed by paralyzing unease. In these stories of the surreal mundanity of office life and obscure tensions at sea, Melville's darkly modern sensibility plunges us into a world of irony and mystery, where nothing is as it first appears.
Download or read book The Works of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Herman Melville Billy Budd and other prose pieces written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alistair MacLeod written by Corey Evan Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Alistair MacLeod: A Literary Companion, Canadian literary scholar Corey Evan Thompson seeks to offer general readers and advanced students of Canadian literature an introductory overview of the life and writings of the Canadian novelist and short story author Alistair MacLeod. While MacLeod's profile was not as prolific as other Canadian authors, such as Margaret Atwood or Alice Munro, his writings have left an indelible impression on readers and critics alike. This book offers an encyclopedic account of all of MacLeod's writings (including publication history and plot synopsis) and vitally important aspects of his life and work.
Download or read book Writing Under the Influence written by M. Djos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a socio-critical analysis of the alcoholic perception in the poetry and fiction of modern American alcoholic writers. Matts Djos focuses on primary indicators of alcohol addiction (fear, manipulation, anger, loneliness, and antic-social behavior) and their expression in modern American literature. After providing a general foundation for analysis of the psychological effects of the disease, this volume scrutinizes the work of Ernest Hemingway, John Berryman, E.A. Robinson, Hart Crane, Theodore Roetheke, Robert Lowell, John Steinbeck, and William Faulkner. The detail provides critical and in-depth perspective on the workings of the alcoholic mind.
Download or read book The Works of Herman Melville Poems written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Redburn written by Herman Melville and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1972-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from Melville's own adolescent experience aboard a merchant ship, Redburn tells the story of Wellingborough Redburn, whose innocence is transformed into disenchantment at the hands of bullying and brutal shipmates and the squalid conditions in Liverpool. Taken from the authoritative first American edition, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes newly commissioned notes. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book The Writings of Herman Melville Journals written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Herman Melville The confidence man his masquerade written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Literature Before 1880 written by Robert Lawson-Peebles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Literature Before 1880 attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlantic eastwards. In between, the book examines the projection of images of the East onto an as-yet unrecognised West; the cultural consequences of Viking, Colombian, and then English migration to America; the growth and independence of the British American colonies; the key writers of the new Republic; and the development of the culture of the United States before and after the Civil War. It is intended both as an introduction for undergraduates to the richness and variety of American Literature, and as a contribution to the debate about its distinctive nature. The book therefore begins with a lengthy survey of earlier histories of American Literature.
Download or read book The Writings of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
