Melville, mapping and globalization : literary cartography in the American baroque writer / / Robert T. Tally Jr.

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Superior document:Continuum literary studies series
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Continuum literary studies.
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Physical Description:xiii, 171 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: "when Leviathan's the text"
  • Out of bounds: Melville's American baroque
  • Spaces of American literature: geography and narrative form
  • 'An everlasting terra incognita': globalization and world literature
  • Anti-Ishmael
  • Marine nomadology: Melville's antinomy of pure reason
  • 'spaces that before were blank': the utopia of the periphery
  • A prosy stroll: overview and the urban itinerary
  • The ambiguities of place: local narrative and the global city
  • Conclusion: "Leviathan is not the biggest fish", or, the cartography of the Kraken.