赫尔曼麦尔维尔(英文)剑桥文学名家研习系列(美国卷)之三

PrefaceAbbreviationsChapter 1 LifeChapter 2 ContextsThe existential contextThe historical contextThe urban contextThe visual contextThe psychological contextThe American contextThe context of laborThe context of slaveryThe world contextThe imaginative contextChapter 3 WritingsThe faces of TypeeOmoo: the rover as flaneurBecoming a great writer: Mardi, Redburn,White-JacketConfronting Moby-DickPierre. the making of a tragic heroPrivate lettersRewriting history: Israel Potter and “Benito Cereno”Modern man: “The Lightning-Rod Man,” The Confidence-Man, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”ContentsBattle-Pieces: the voices of warClarel, an American epicThe return to prose: Burgundy Club sketches,John MarrBilly Budd: visions and revisionsChapter 4 ReceptionNotesGuide to further readingIndex