Melville and Repose
The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance
John Bryant
Price: £53.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-507782-7
Publication date: 16 December 1993
336 pages, 234x156 mm
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| - 'Written in a lively and engaging style but incorporating an impressive degree of scholarly research, not only into the corpus of Melville scholarship but also the history and culture of the Renaissance, Melville and Repose is a major contribution to thought about the nature of America's first literary flowering.' - American Studies vol 29 part 1
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Bryant's book is a strong and significant argument for the centrality of humour in Melville's novels. The purpose of Melville and Repose
is dual: to ground the uses of humour in Melville in sensitive readings of contemporaneous European and American writings, and to offer a definitive account of humour as the shaping force of Melville's narrative voice for the duration of his literary
career. Bryant argues that Melville fused a "rhetoric of geniality" adopted from the British with a "rhetoric of deceit" borrowed from the American tall tale in order to create his own amiably cosmopolitan "rhetoric of aesthetic repose." Thorough research, an engaging style, and full, scholarly readings of the oeuvre combine to make this book a welcome addition to the libraries of Melville
scholars and enthusiasts.
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| Authors, editors,
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John Bryant, Professor of English, Hofstra University
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