Melville, Mapping and Globalization Literary

This monograph offers a new interpretation of Melville's work (focusing on Moby-Dick, Pierre and Benito Cereno) in the light of scholarship on globalization from critics in 'new' American studies.

Robert T. Tally Jr. is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University, USA, where he teaches American and world literature.

Acknowledgments	p. viii
Preface: “When Leviathan's the text”	p. x
Out of Bounds: Melville's American Baroque	p. 1
Spaces of American Literature: Geography and Narrative Form	p. 19
“An everlasting terra incognita&;rdquo;: Globalization and World Literature	p. 37
Anti-Ishmael	p. 50
Marine Nomadology: Melville's Antinomy of Pure Reason	p. 65
“Spaces that before were blank”: The Utopia of the Periphery	p. 86
A Prosy Stroll: Overview and the Urban Itinerary	p. 102
The Ambiguities of Place: Local Narrative and the Global City	p. 117
Conclusion: “Leviathan is not the biggest fish,” or, The Cartography of the Kraken	p. 131
Notes	p. 137
Bibliography	p. 160
Index	p. 169
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