When people think about Herman Melville, they often think about
experiences of madness, horror, and the sublime. But throughout his
life, Melville was deeply and persistently interested in beauty. In
this fascinating book, Cody Marrs retraces Melville's engagements
with beauty and provides a revisionary account of Melville's
philosophy, aesthetics, and literary career. In writings such as
Moby-Dick, Timoleon, and Weeds and Wildings, Melville reflects on
the nature, origins, and effects of beauty, and the ways in which
beauty is inexorably bound up with considerations of religion,
science, ecology, art, literature, and metaphysics. Melville's
writing indicates that beauty is, ultimately, an experience of
non-sovereignty, a felt recognition of the self's interdependence.
In a series of fresh readings of Melville's works, ranging from the
most to the least canonical, Marrs demonstrates how and why
Melville developed this understanding of beauty, and the ways it
resonates with recent scholarship on aesthetics, posthumanism,
ecocriticism, materialism, and the means and methods of American
literary studies. By recentring Melville's treatment of beauty and
exploring its philosophical and scholarly implications, Marrs
provides a new, evocative perspective on Melville as well as the
broader field of American literary studies.
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