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Peter Melville
Amid a global Cold War in 2070, two young researchers detect mysterious signals from space, leading to the discovery of machine aliens hiding in our solar system. An attempt to…
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What does hospitality have to do with Romanticism? What are the conditions of a Romantic welcome? Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation traces the curious passage of strangers through…
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Peter Melville Logan
Examines the importance of fetishism in nineteenth-century cultural theory.
Peter Szendy
Argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby-Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies but also, and more deeply, because…
Peter West
The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture disrupts our critical sense of nineteenth-century American literature by examining the storytelling strategies of both Nathaniel Hawthorne…
In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of four major U.S. literary figures to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Focusing on Emerson (in his essays)…
Peter J. Bellis
In this book Peter J. Bellis aims to show how Melville’s career is shaped by his desire to define and represent the self, to find a secure identity on which…
Peter Riley (Lecturer in American Literature, University of Exeter)
This volume is about the type of work that poets perform and why it matters. Challenging the divide between inspired poetic production and other apparently lesser and contingent forms of…
Herman Melville
This volume, published by Melville Press in conjunction with his historical museum in the Berkshires, MA, is the first time all of these short works have appeared in a separate…
An advanced reference resource for the novel and novel theory, The Encyclopedia of the Novel offers authoritative accounts of the history, terminology, genre and theory of the novel.
Albert Peter Low,James Melville Macoun
Report of the Mistassini Expedition 1884-5 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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