{"product_id":"9781119668503","title":"A New Companion to Herman Melville","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBlackwell Companions to Literature and Culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eA New Companion to Herman Melville\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWyn Kelley | Christopher Ohge\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ American \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover a fascinating new set of perspectives on the life and work of Herman Melville\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA New Companion to Herman Melville \u003c\/i\u003edelivers an insightful examination of Melville for the twenty-first century. Building on the success of the first Blackwell \u003ci\u003eCompanion to Herman Melville\u003c\/i\u003e, and offering a variety of tools for reading, writing, and teaching Melville and other authors, this \u003ci\u003eNew Companion\u003c\/i\u003e offers critical, technological, and aesthetic practices that can be employed to read Melville in exciting and revelatory ways.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors Wyn Kelley and Christopher Ohge create a framework that reflects a pluralistic model for humanities teaching and research. In doing so, the contributing authors highlight the ways in which Melville himself was concerned with the utility of tools within fluid circuits of meaning, and how those ideas are embodied, enacted, and mediated.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn addition to considering critical theories of race, gender, sexuality, religion, transatlantic and hem­ispheric studies, digital humanities, book history, neurodiversity, and new biography and reception studies, this book offers:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA thorough introduction to the life of Melville, as well as the twentieth- and twenty-first-century revivals of his work\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eComprehensive explorations of Melville’s works, including \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick, Pierre, Piazza Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIsrael Potter\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as his poems and poetic masterpiece \u003ci\u003eClarel\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePractical discussions of material books, print culture, and digital technologies as applied to Melville\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIn-depth examinations of Melville's treatment of the natural world\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTwo symposium sections with concise reflections on art and adaptation, and on teaching and public engagement\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA New Companion to Herman Melville\u003c\/i\u003e provides essential reading for scholars and students ranging from undergraduate and graduate students to more advanced scholars and specialists in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWyn Kelley,\u003c\/b\u003e editor of the first Blackwell \u003ci\u003eCompanion to Herman Melville\u003c\/i\u003e, is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of \u003ci\u003eMelville’s City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York \u003c\/i\u003e(1996)\u003ci\u003e, Herman Melville: An Introduction \u003c\/i\u003e(2008), and, with Henry Jenkins, \u003ci\u003eReading in a Participatory Culture: Re-Mixing Moby-Dick in the English Classroom \u003c\/i\u003e(2013).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Ohge\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and author of \u003ci\u003ePublishing Scholarly Editions: Archives, Computing, and Experience\u003c\/i\u003e (2021). He also serves as Associate Director of the \u003ci\u003eMelville Electronic Library \u003c\/i\u003eand an associate editor of \u003ci\u003eMelville’s Marginalia Online\u003c\/i\u003e, and previously served as an associate editor at the Mark Twain Papers \u0026amp; Project at the University of California, Berkeley. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e06 September 2022\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley-Blackwell\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781119668503\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e592\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e42.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378436042892,"sku":"9781119668503","price":171.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781119668503_048790f0-346e-44ae-b4d1-df9056886c61.jpg?v=1780193730","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781119668503","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}