A provocative reassessment of how Melville's key works engaged with transformative aspects of book manufacture and distribution in the nineteenth century.
Introduction -- Impressions of authenticity in Typee and Omoo -- Bookbindings and identity in Redburn and White-jacket -- Metaphors, markets, and Moby-Dick's "'sthetics in all things"--Pierre and the ambiguities of paper -- Reproducibility, originality, and modernity in The conf…
In this imaginative book, Katie McGettigan argues that Melville's novels and poetry demonstrate a sustained engagement with the physical, social, and economic materiality of industrial and commercial forms of print. Further, McGettigan shows that this "aesthetics of the material…
A provocative reassessment of how Melville's key works engaged with transformative aspects of book manufacture and distribution in the nineteenth century.
The Curse of the Somers retells the greatest controversy in the history of the U.S. Navy of the early American Republic, a plotted mutiny by the son of the Secretary of War. Acknowledged as the only mutiny in the Navy's history, the events on the Somers inspired countless headli…
The Curse of the Somers retells the greatest controversy in the history of the U.S. Navy of the early American Republic, a plotted mutiny by the son of the Secretary of War. Acknowledged as the only mutiny in the Navy's history, the events on the Somers inspired countless headli…
The Multiverse of Office Fiction liberates Herman Melvilles 1853 classic, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," from a microcosm of Melville studies, namely the so-called Bartleby Industry. This book aims to illuminate office fictionfiction featuring office workers such as clerks, civil se…
The Multiverse of Office Fiction liberates Herman Melvilles 1853 classic, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," from a microcosm of Melville studies, namely the so-called Bartleby Industry. This book aims to illuminate office fictionfiction featuring office workers such as clerks, civil se…
