Herman Melville: Reassessments

By Robert A. Lee and A. Robert Lee

He has a very high and noble nature, and is] better worth immortality than most of usoso Hawthorne wrote of Herman Melville in his journal for 1856. This collection of essays undertakes to re-examine the nobility of Melville's powerful and engaging imagination. Not only are his primary motifs of the journey and the quest for Truth given attention, but also his subtleties as a great maker of fiction are analysed. Hence the collection as a whole stresses Melville's way with language and irony and his serious, inventive playfulness as a writer.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0389203769
• ISBN13: 9780389203766
• Release Date: June 1984
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 222 Pages