Culture, humanities & social science

A New Companion to Herman Melville

Name: A New Companion to Herman Melville
Author: Wyn Kelley

Edited by Wyn Kelley, senior lecturer of literature, and Christopher Ohge

Wiley · 2022

Building on the success of the first Blackwell "Companion to Herman Melville," and offering a variety of tools for reading, writing, and teaching Melville, "A New Companion to Herman Melville" delivers an insightful examination of Melville for the 21st century. Editors Kelley and Ohge create a framework that reflects a pluralistic model for humanities teaching and research offering critical, technological, and aesthetic practices that can be employed to read Melville in exciting and revelatory ways.

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From Summer 2023 recommended reading from MIT (MIT News).

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