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Top Books on melville
1. Melville
ISBN10 Number - 843220904X
Date of Publication - Sep 12, 2007
Number of Pages 544
Publisher - Seix Barral
2. Melville
ISBN10 Number - 033037107X
Date of Publication - 2005
Number of Pages 300
Publisher - Alfred a Knopf Inc
3. Melville
ISBN10 Number - 0810124645
Date of Publication - January 11, 2008
Number of Pages 256
Publisher - Northwestern University Press
4. Melville
ISBN10 Number - 0330371088
Date of Publication - Jun 08, 2006
Number of Pages 432
Publisher - Picador
5. Melville
ISBN10 Number - 067046709X
Date of Publication - January 25, 1952
Publisher - Viking Adult
6. Melville
"Melville: Fashioning in Modernity considers all of the major fiction with a concentration on lesser-known work, and provides a radically fresh approach to Melville, focusing on: clothing as socially symbolic; dress, power and class; the transgressive nature of dress; inappropriate clothing; the meaning of uniform; the multiplicity of identity that dress may represent; anxiety and modernity. The representation of clothing in the fiction is central to some of Melville's major themes; the relation between private and public identity, social inequality and how this is maintained; the relation between power, justice and authority; the relation between the "civilized" and the "savage." Frequently clothing represents the malleability of identity (its possibilities as well as its limitations), represents writing itself, as well as becoming indicative of the crisis of modernity. Clothing also becomes a trope for Melville's representations of authorship and of his own scene of writing. Melville: Fashioning in Modernity also encompasses identity in transition, making use of the examination of modernity by theorists such as Anthony Giddens, as well as on theories of figures such as the dandy. In contextualizing Melville's interest in clothing, a variety of other works and writers is considered; works such as Robinson Crusoe and The Scarlet Letter, and novelists such as Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Jack London, and George Orwell. The book has at its core a consideration of the scene of writing and the publishing history of each text"--