The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
- ISBN-10
- 052155571X
- ISBN-13
- 9780521555715
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 305
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-05-13
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Robert Steven Levine
Description
Specially commissioned essays provide a critical introduction to one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America.
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