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Melville

Spring 2010 ENGL 1560B S01

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Instructor: Philip Gould


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Course Description

A seminar looking closely at the relation between the life and literary work of Herman Melville, with an extended reading of his masterpiece, Moby-Dick. The course will look at the history of writing and publishing during Melville¿s era and consider some of his contemporaries like Hawthorne and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Enrollment limited to 20.