{"product_id":"melville-beauty-and-american-literary-studies-an-aesthetics-in-all-things-hardcover","title":"Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies: An Aesthetics in All Things - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCody Marrs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen people think about Herman Melville, they often think about experiences of madness, horror, and the sublime. But throughout his life, Melville was deeply and persistently interested in beauty. In this fascinating book, Cody Marrs retraces Melville's engagements with beauty and provides a revisionary account of Melville's philosophy, aesthetics, and literary career. In writings such as \u003cem\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTimoleon\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWeeds and Wildings\u003c\/em\u003e, Melville reflects on the nature, origins, and effects of beauty, and the ways in which beauty is inexorably bound up with considerations of religion, science, ecology, art, literature, and metaphysics. Melville's writing indicates that beauty is, ultimately, an experience of non-sovereignty, a felt recognition of the self's interdependence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a series of fresh readings of Melville's works, ranging from the most to the least canonical, Marrs demonstrates how and why Melville developed this understanding of beauty, and the ways it resonates with recent scholarship on aesthetics, posthumanism, ecocriticism, materialism, and the means and methods of American literary studies. By recentring Melville's treatment of beauty and exploring its philosophical and scholarly implications, Marrs provides a new, evocative perspective on Melville as well as the broader field of American literary studies.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCody Marrs, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of English, University of Georgia\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCody Marrs is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, where he teaches and writes about American literature. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eNineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNot Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling About the Civil War\u003c\/em\u003e; the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe New Melville Studies\u003c\/em\u003e; the General Editor of \u003cem\u003eNineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition\u003c\/em\u003e; and a co-editor of \u003cem\u003eTimelines of American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e. His work has also appeared in journals such as \u003cem\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJ19\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAmerican Literary History\u003c\/em\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.8 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51854922383648,"sku":"9780192871725","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/Qv3BMZJsiE9780192871725.webp?v=1781533525","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/melville-beauty-and-american-literary-studies-an-aesthetics-in-all-things-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}