Magnificent Decay: Melville and Ecology

by Tom Nurmi

Book Overview

What is Melville beyond the whale? Long celebrated for his stories of the sea, Melville was also fascinated by the interrelations between living species and planetary systems, a perspective informing his work in ways we now term "ecological." By reading Melville in the context of nineteenth-century science, Tom Nurmi contends that he may best be understood as a proto-ecologist who innovatively engages with the entanglement of human and nonhuman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081394502X
• ISBN13: 9780813945026
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"