This new collection offers timely, critical essays specially commissioned to provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career.

This book explores the writings of Herman Melville across his career and examines the distinctive qualities of his style.

Specially commissioned essays provide a critical introduction to one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America.

Herman Melville in Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of Herman Melville, a towering figure in nineteent

Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby Dick is now a central work in the American literary canon. This introduction offers