Melville's City(1st Edition) Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by WynKelley Paperback, 332 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-10672-6, ISBN: 0-521-10672-9
"Melville's City argues that Melville's relationship to the city was considerably more complex than has generally been believed. By placing him in the historical and cultural context of nineteenth-century New York, Kelley presents a Melville who borrowed from the colourful cultural variety of the city while at the same time investigating its darker and more dangerous social aspects. She shows that images both from Melville and from popul ..."
Herman Melville(1st Edition) An Introduction by WynKelley Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2008 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-3158-2, ISBN: 1-4051-3158-6
"This unique introduction explores Herman Melville as he described himself in Billy Budd–"a writer whom few know." Moving beyond the recurring depiction of Melville as the famous author of Moby–Dick , this book traces his development as a writer while providing the basic tools for successful critical reading of his novels. Offers a brief introduction to Melville, covering all his major works Showcases Melville′s w ..."
A Companion to Herman Melville(1st Edition) (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) by WynKelley Paperback, 616 Pages, Published 2015 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-1-119-04527-4, ISBN: 1-119-04527-4
"In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville s works in the twenty–first century. Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville Considers Melville in a global context, and looks at the impact of global economies and technologies on the way people read Melville Takes account of the latest and most sophisticate ..."
"Whole Oceans Away"(Illustrated) Melville and the Pacific by Christopher Sten, Jill Barnum, WynKelley Hardcover, 372 Pages, Published 2007 by The Kent State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87338-893-1, ISBN: 0-87338-893-3
"Essays on Melville and the culture of the Pacific “Like the young Melville, those who imagine Polynesia from the perspective of Europe or North America tend to envision a tropical garden set in a shining sea. But the Pacific experienced by a runaway American sailor in an earlier century presents a different picture, and the Pacifi c experienced by indigenous peoples of today a different one yet.”― from the Introduction Herman Melville h ..."
"''In Reading in a Participatory Culture, Media Studies meets the Great White Whale in the English Classroom. This book is one of the most exciting and breathtaking works on English education ever written. At the same time it is must reading for anyone interested in digital media, digital culture, and learning in the 21st Century.'' -- James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Arizona State University, a ..."
Herman Melville(1st Edition) An Introduction (Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature) by WynKelley Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2008 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-3157-5, ISBN: 1-4051-3157-8
"This unique introduction explores Herman Melville as he described himself in Billy Budd-"a writer whom few know." Moving beyond the recurring depiction of Melville as the famous author of Moby-Dick, this book traces his development as a writer while providing the basic tools for successful critical reading of his novels. Offers a brief introduction to Melville, covering all his major works Showcases Melville's writing process throu ..."
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Melville's City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York Series Number 100 (Hardback) by WynKelley Hardcover, 332 Pages, Published 1996 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-56054-2, ISBN: 0-521-56054-3
"Melville's City argues that Melville's relationship to the city was considerably more complex than has generally been believed. By placing him in the historical and cultural context of nineteenth-century New York, Kelley presents a Melville who borrowed from the colourful cultural variety of the city while at the same time investigating its darker and more dangerous social aspects. She shows that images both from Melville and from popul ..."
A Companion to Herman Melville(1st Edition) (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) by WynKelley Hardcover, 608 Pages, Published 2006 by Wiley-Blackwell Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-2231-3, ISBN: 1-4051-2231-5
"In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville’s works in the twenty–first century. Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville Considers Melville in a global context, and looks at the impact of global economies and technologies on the way people read Melville Takes account of the latest and most sophisticated ..."
"Bedford College Editions reprint enduring literary works in a handsome, readable, and affordable format. The text of each work is lightly but helpfully annotated. Prepared by eminent scholars and teachers, the editorial matter in each volume includes a chronology of the life of the author; an illustrated introduction to the contexts and major issues of the text in its time and ours; an annotated bibliography for further reading (context ..."
"''In Reading in a Participatory Culture, Media Studies meets the Great White Whale in the English Classroom. This book is one of the most exciting and breathtaking works on English education ever written. At the same time it is must reading for anyone interested in digital media, digital culture, and learning in the 21st Century.'' -- James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Arizona State University, a ..."
"Race and Vision in the Nineteenth-Century United States is a collection of twelve essays by cultural critics that exposes how fraught relations of identity and race appear through imaging technologies in architecture, scientific discourse, sculpture, photography, painting, music, theater, and, finally, the twenty-first century visual commentary of Kara Walker. Throughout these essays, the racial practices of the nineteenth century are j ..."
"Remixing Moby-Dick in the English Classroom Henry Jenkins, Wyn Kelley. While
the work with the young men at the training school was very important to the
writing process, several events further ... They had a great passion for Melville's
work. ... and Martin Luther King Jr. and many authors for a joyful reexamination of
What that material had to do with Melville's novel. ... When you are doing an
adaptation of classic literature, y ..."
"Editors suggest or insist upon changes, and therefore both assist and resist
writers in performing this role; and for their part, writers resist but also submit to
and comply with their editors' suggestions and impositions. This phase of
composition is inherently collaborative, and no published text exists, historically
or in modern scholarly format, without editorial intervention of one degree or
another. It behooves us, then, to ..."
"Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne met in 1850 and enjoyed for sixteen months an intense but brief friendship. Taking advantage of new interpretive tools such as queer theory, globalist studies, political and social ideology, marketplace analysis, psychoanalytical and philosophical applications to literature, masculinist theory, and critical studies of race, the twelve essays in this book focus on a number of provocative personal, ..."
"Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne met in 1850 and enjoyed for sixteen months an intense but brief friendship. Taking advantage of new interpretive tools such as queer theory, globalist studies, political and social ideology, marketplace analysis, psychoanalytical and philosophical applications to literature, masculinist theory, and critical studies of race, the twelve essays in this book focus on a number of provocative personal, ..."