Spoken Sources in Melville's Early Works
by
Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
An examination of Melville’s “borrowing”
“Mary Bercaw Edwards has researched the sources very thoroughly, going well beyond the previously published source studies. The result is a sound historical account of the ‘talk’ Melville encountered in the 1840s, and in emphasizing the oral...