This challenging and timely study demonstrates that the problems Melville faced as a writer - the relationship between politics and aesthetics and the represent

American literature is profoundly, almost inescapably political. America's most thoughtful authors long ago realized that it was through the novel, the novella,

Melville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled.

In fascinating new contextual readings of four of Herman Melville's novels—Typee, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and Pierre—Samuel Otter delves into Melville's ex

Monstrous Kinships: Realism and Attachment Theory in the Novels of Mary Shelley, Herman Melville, Thomas Hardy, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Vladimir Na