{"product_id":"melvilles-anatomies-paperback","title":"Melville's Anatomies - Paperback","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\u003eSamuel Otter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn fascinating new contextual readings of four of Herman Melville's novels--\u003ci\u003eTypee\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhite-Jacket, Moby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePierre\u003c\/i\u003e--Samuel Otter delves into Melville's exorbitant prose to show how he anatomizes ideology, making it palpable and strange. Otter portrays Melville as deeply concerned with issues of race, the body, gender, sentiment, and national identity. He articulates a range of contemporary texts (narratives of travelers, seamen, and slaves; racial and aesthetic treatises; fiction; poetry; and essays) in order to flesh out Melville's discursive world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOtter presents Melville's works as \"inside narratives\" offering material analyses of consciousness. Chapters center on the tattooed faces in \u003ci\u003eTypee\u003c\/i\u003e, the flogged bodies in \u003ci\u003eWhite-Jacket\u003c\/i\u003e, the scrutinized heads in \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, and the desiring eyes and eloquent, constricted hearts of \u003ci\u003ePierre\u003c\/i\u003e. Otter shows how Melville's books tell of the epic quest to know the secrets of the human body. Rather than dismiss contemporary beliefs about race, self, and nation, Melville inhabits them, acknowledging their appeal and examining their sway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeticulously researched and brilliantly argued, this groundbreaking study links Melville's words to his world and presses the relations between discourse and ideology. It will deeply influence all future studies of Melville and his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Otter has done better than most contemporary readers of Melville is to bring Melville's obsession with rhetoric and with authorship into alignment with those political issues and to capture fully the context of Melville's concerns.--Priscilla Wald, author of \u003ci\u003eConstituting Americans\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Otter\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 418\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.02 x 6.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 05, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53329637605683,"sku":"9780520205826","price":73.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/aEkCM8c5jz9780520205826.webp?v=1778171568","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/melvilles-anatomies-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}