Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. Howev

Discover a fascinating new set of perspectives on the life and work of Herman Melville A New Companion to Herman Melville delivers an insightful examination of

This new collection offers timely, critical essays specially commissioned to provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career.

An ambitious, revisionary study of not only Herman Melville's political philosophy, but also of our own deeply inhuman condition.

In seminal works such as Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, and The Fire Next Time, acclaimed author and social critic James Baldwin (1924–198