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Hardcover After the Whale: Melville in the Wake of Moby-Dick Book
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ISBN: 0817307745

ISBN13: 9780817307745

After the Whale: Melville in the Wake of Moby-Dick

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Contextualizes Herman Melville's short fiction and poetry by studying it in the company of the more familiar fiction of the 1850s era

The study focuses on Melville's vision of the purpose and function of language from Moby-Dick through Billy Budd with a special emphasis on how language--in function and form--follows and depends on the function and form of the body, how Melville's attitude toward words echoes his attitude...

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