Negotiating Transcendentalism, Escaping « Paradise » : Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.
By reviewing the critical literature on Melville and Transcendentalism and then undertaking a close reading of Moby-Dick (1851), this paper argues that the novel reflects, among other things, an ongoing debate between the novelist and Transcendentalist philosophy. While in later works, Melville seem...
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| Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2010-06-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/8467 |