Melville's Monumental Imagination crash Through writing and

Through writing and

Alternate format questions include multiple response

study of both personal and social issues

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The book asks how the poets themselves worked these circumstances into the fabric of their poems

Melville's Monumental Imagination crash Through writing andMelville's Monumental Imaginationexplores the connection between the contested 19th century American monument tradition and one of the nation's most revered authors, Herman Melville (1819 1891). The book was written to fill a void in recent Melville scholarship. To date, there has not been a monograph that focuses exclusively on Melville's incorporation of monuments in his fictional world. The book charts the territory of Melville's novels in order to