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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.
"Melville: Fashioning in Modernity considers all of the major fiction with a concentration on lesser-known work, and provides a radically fresh approach to Melville, focusing on: clothing as socially symbolic; dress, power and class; the transgressive nature of dress; inappropri…
"Melville: Fashioning in Modernity considers all of the major fiction with a concentration on lesser-known work, and provides a radically fresh approach to Melville, focusing on: clothing as socially symbolic; dress, power and class; the transgressive nature of dress; inappropri…
"Melville: Fashioning in Modernity considers all of the major fiction with a concentration on lesser-known work, and provides a radically fresh approach to Melville, focusing on: clothing as socially symbolic; dress, power and class; the transgressive nature of dress; inappropri…
"Melville: Fashioning in Modernity considers all of the major fiction with a concentration on lesser-known work, and provides a radically fresh approach to Melville, focusing on: clothing as socially symbolic; dress, power and class; the transgressive nature of dress; inappropri…
