Böcker av Corey Evan Thompson

An informative and thorough companion to Herman Melville's life and writings. It includes a biography of Melville and detailed information on Melville's works, on the important themes, and on the significant people and places in his life. The appendices include suggestions for further reading of both literary and cultural criticism.

The first full-length study to examine the ubiquity and implications of death in Herman Melville's prose fiction. As Corey Evan Thompson shows, death occurs in all of Melville's novels and much of his shorter fiction by various means.

Offers the first full-length analysis of the presence and implications of alcohol and intoxication in Herman Melville's novels, short fiction, and poetry. Throughout his works he urges his readers for a variety of reasons to avoid alcohol. Liquor and intoxication, he consistently illustrates, brings various yet consistently-harsh outcomes.