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After the Whale
Contextualizes Herman Melville’s short fiction and poetry by studying it in the company of the more familiar fiction of the 1850s era The study focuses on Melville’s vision of the purpose and function of language from Moby-Dick through Billy Budd with a special emphasis on how language—in function and form—follows and depends on the function and form of the body, how Melville’s attitude toward words echoes his attitude toward fish. Davis begins by locating and describing the fundamental dialectic formulated in Moby-Dick in the characters of Ahab and Ishmael. This dialectic produces two visions of bodily reality and two corresponding visions of language: Ahab’s, in which language ...
Checklist of Melville Reviews
This 1992 edition includes every Melville review discovered up to now, and cites modern reprints of the reviews. Also included is a new section of reviews of the lectures Melville gave in the 1850s.
Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis
Reproduction of the original: Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis by Charles G. Davis
