Melville, Mapping and Globalization

Robert T. Tally Jr. is Assistant Professor of English at Texas State University, USA, where he teaches American and world literature.

• Acknowledgements; Preface: "When Leviathan's the text"; 1. Out of Bounds: Melville's American Baroque; 2. Spaces of American Literature: Geography and Narrative Form; 3. "An everlasting terra incognita": Globalization and World Literature; 4. Anti-Ishmael; 5. Marine Nomadology: Melville's Antinomy of Pure Reason; 6. "Spaces that before were blank": The Utopia of the Periphery; 7. A Prosy Stroll: Overview and the Urban Itinerary; 8. The Ambiguities of Place: Local Narrative and the Global City; Conclusion: "Leviathan is not the biggest fish," or, The Cartography of the Kraken; Bibliography; Index.

"In Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer, Robert Tally, unlike the vast majority of his predecessors, refuses the temptation to domesticate Herman Melville's polyvalent literary excesses. Instead he goes all out to think them positively. The result is a major contribution to the New Americanist effort to reconstellate Melville's work out of the American nationalist context where it has been mired into the global context where it has always belonged." - Distinguished Professor William V. Spanos, Binghamton University, New York, USA Tally's reading raises provocative questions about neglected dimensions of Melville's work. This book would be helpful for upper-level undergraduates and scholars alike. -Routledge ABES