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019 $a957135280
020 $a9781942954231$qhardcover
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050 4 $aPS2387$b.H39 2016
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100 1 $aHaydock, John,$eauthor.
245 10 $aMelville's intervisionary network :$bBalzac, Hawthorne, and realism in the American renaissance /$cJohn Haydock.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aClemson, South Carolina :$bClemson University Press,$c2016.
300 $aviii, 333 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aThe romances of Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick and Billy Budd, Sailor, are usually examined from some setting almost exclusively American. European or other planetary contexts are subordinated to local considerations. But while this isolated approach plays well in an arena constructed on American exclusiveness, it does not express the reality of the literary processes swirling around Melville in the middle of the nineteenth century. A series of expanding literary and technological networks was active that made his writing part of a global complex. Honoré de Balzac, popular French writer and creator of realism in the novel, was also in the web of these same networks, both preceding and at the height of Melville's creativity. Because they engaged in similar intentions, there developed an almost inevitable attraction that brought their works together. Until recently, however, Balzac has not been recognized as a significant influence on Melville during his most creative period. Over the last decade, scholars began to explore literary networks by new methodologies, and the criticism developed out of these strategies pertains usually to modernist, postcolonial, contemporary situations.
600 10 $aMelville, Herman,$d1819-1891$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aBalzac, Honoré de,$d1799-1850$xInfluence.
650 0 $aRealism in literature.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
852 00 $bglx$hPS2387$i.H39 2016