“…Phillips shows in often surprising ways how this exalted classical form proved as vital to American culture as it did to the great societies of the ancient world.Through close readings of James Fenimore Cooper, Lydia Sigourney, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Herman Melville, as well as the transcendentalists, Phillips traces the rich history of epic in American literature and art from early colonial times to the late nineteenth century. …”

“…Many of the most famous American works of the nineteenth century that we know today - such as Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" - were not widely read when they first appeared. …”

“…Machor takes four antebellum authors—Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick, and Caroline Chesebro'—and analyzes how their works were published, received, and interpreted. …”

“…He looks to novels, short stories, poems, and creative nonfiction as well as legislative reports, trial transcripts, legal documents, newspaper and journal articles, treatises, and popular books (like The Record of Crimes, A Defence of Capital Punishment, and The Gallows, the Prison, and the Poor House), all of which were part of the debate over the death penalty.Barton focuses on several canonical figures—James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Theodore Dreiser—and offers new readings of their work in light of the death penalty controversy. …”

“…Drawing on writers such as Herman Melville, Leonard Cohen, Kate Chopin, and Thich Nhat Hanh, Heighton considers the influence of illusions on creativity, art, and society. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Coleridge; Juventud y vejez; Walt Whitman; Hojas de Hierba; Herman Melville; Moby Dick; Edgar Allan Poe; El pozo y el péndulo; F.R. de Chateaubriand; Memorias de ultratumba; Charles Baudelaire; Las flores del mal; Alejandro Dumas; Los tres mosqueteros; Stendhal ; Rojo y negro; Víctor Hugo; Los miserables; La visión de Dante; Y oí una gran voz; Mariano José de Larra; Yo quiero ser cómico; 3 EL SIGLO XIX. …”

“…Baird examines writers who helped to create a modern authentic primitivism, with emphasis on Herman Melville, whom Baird sees as a locus of change for the cultural significance of primary art. …”

“…They discuss writers as varied as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Sarah Orne Jewett, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway, Mavis Gallant, Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, and Robert Olen Butler. …”

“…The novelist is not a reporter but a creator, and what he creates from his experience is his vision of truth. Herman Melville saw the function of the novelist in terms of his ability to expose the reader to truth while simultaneously protecting him from it or, in other words, to enable the reader to experience reality indirectly and, therefore, safely. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…48 : Moby Dick; or, The whale / Herman Melville. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain. - XX, 395 p.…”

“…De Warren develops this notion of original forgiveness through a reflection on the indispensability of trust for human existence, as well as an examination of the refusal or unavailability to forgive in the aftermath of moral harms.De Warren engages in a critical discussion of philosophical figures, including Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Mikhail Bakhtin, Edmund Husserl, Gabriel Marcel, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean Améry, and of literary works by William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Heinrich von Kleist, Simon Wiesenthal, Herman Melville, and Maurice Sendak. He uses this discussion to show that in trusting another person, we must trust in ourselves to remain available to the possibility of forgiveness for those occasions when the other person betrays a trust, without thereby forgiving anything in advance. …”

“…In order to answer these questions, Søren Frank covers an impressive range of material in A Poetic History of the Oceans: Greek, Roman and Biblical texts, an Icelandic Saga, Shakespearean drama, Jens Munk's logbook, 19th century-writers such as James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Jules Michelet, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Jonas Lie, and Joseph Conrad as well as their 20th and 21st century-heirs like J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Valdemar(1845) -- Herman Melville : Moby-Dick : or, the Whale (1851) -- Adalbert Stifter : Der Nachsommer (1857) -- Jules Verne : Voyage au Centre de la Terre (1864-67) -- Émile Zola : Le Docteur Pascal (1893) -- Gottfried Benn : Gehirne (1915) -- Franz Kafka : Ein Bericht für eine Akademie (1917) -- Robert Musil : Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (1930; 1933) -- Samuel Beckett : Acte Sans Paroles I (1957) -- Thomas Pynchon : Gravity's Rainbow (1973) -- W.G. …”

“…Examining both canonical and understudied texts—from Puritan sermons, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover, and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” to the popular cross-dressing female pirate novelette Fanny Campbell, and satirical decorated Union envelopes, this book argues that piracy acted as a trope to negotiate ideas of legitimacy in the contexts of U.S. colonialism, nationalism, and expansionism. …”

“…C'est pourtant en plein océan qu'on les trouve réunis, au milieu du XIXe siècle, dans les romans maritimes de Victor Hugo et Herman Melville. Baleines, pieuvres, récifs, tempêtes, tous expressions de l'énigme universelle, y prennent tour à tour noms et attributs sphinxiaux. …”

“…Barton focuses on several canonical figures--James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Theodore Dreiser--and offers new readings of their work in light of the death penalty controversy. …”

“…Machor takes four antebellum authors--Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick, and Caroline Chesebro'--and analyzes how their works were published, received, and interpreted. …”