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Herman Melville
  • Authored by: Harold Bloom, Editor; Tony McGowan, Volume Editor
  • From the Series: Bloom's Classic Critical Views
  • Trim Size: 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
  • ISBN-10: 0791095576
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-7910-9557-7
  • Status: In Stock
  • List Price: $45.00
  • Imprint: Chelsea House
  • Published: 11/01/2007
  • Dewey Number: 813
  • Reading Level: Grades 9 and up
  • Pages: 224

Summary

Although he spent much of his career in obscurity, Herman Melville, the author of classics such as Moby-Dick, Billy Budd, and "Bartleby, the Scrivener," has since become known as one of America's greatest writers. This volume from the new Bloom's Classic Critical Views series features essays from the 19th and early 20th centuries that trace the resurgence of Melville's literary influence.

Specifications

Chronology. Index.

About the Author(s)

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. Educated at Cornell and Yale universities, he is the author of 30 books, including Shelley's Mythmaking (1959), The Visionary Company (1961), Blake's Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), Agon: Toward a Theory of Revisionism (1982), The American Religion (1992), The Western Canon (1994), Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection (1996), and Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), a 1998 National Book Award finalist. The Anxiety of Influence (1973) sets forth Professor Bloom's provocative theory of the literary relationships between the great writers and their predecessors. His most recent books include How to Read and Why (2000), Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (2002), Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003), Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? (2004), and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005). In addition, he is the author of hundreds of articles, reviews, and editorial introductions. In 1999, Professor Bloom received the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism. He has also received the International Prize of Catalonia, the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico, and the Hans Christian Andersen Bicentennial Prize of Denmark.

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