Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance by John Bryant

Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance

John Bryant

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John Bryant's book is a strong and significant argument for the centrality of the comic and repose in Melville's novels. The purpose of Melville and Repose is dual: to ground the uses of romantic humor in Melville in sensitive readings of contempo...

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