Melville's City

Melville's City
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 0521560543
ISBN-13 : 9780521560542
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Book Synopsis Melville's City by : Wyn Kelley

Download or read book Melville's City written by Wyn Kelley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She shows that images both from Melville and from popular sources of the time represented New York variously as Capital, Labyrinth, City of Man, and City of God, and she goes on to demonstrate that he resisted a generalizing or totalizing representation of the city by revealing its hybrid identity and giving voice to the poor, the displaced, and the racially excluded.

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