Review: The New Melville Studies, edited by Cody Marrs

Book Review| March 01 2024 Review: The New Melville Studies, edited by Cody Marrs Cody Marrs, ed. , The New Melville Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 280. 113. Daniel Diez Couch Daniel Diez Couch United States Air Force Academy Daniel Diez Couch is an Associate Professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy. He is the author of American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022) and editor, with Matthew Pethers, of The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art (Bucknell University Press, 2024). His work has also appeared in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, among other venues. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nineteenth-Century Literature (2024) 78 (4): 324–327. https: //doi. org/10. 1525/ncl. 2024. 78. 4. 324 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Review: The New Melville Studies, edited by Cody Marrs. Nineteenth-Century Literature 1 March 2024; 78 (4): 324–327. doi: https: //doi. org/10. 1525/ncl. 2024. 78. 4. 324 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNineteenth-Century Literature Search The New Melville Studies, edited by Cody Marrs, brings together fascinating work by fifteen scholars, each of whom offers a unique lens into Melville's writing. While the volume—as its title indicates—focuses exclusively on Melville, this does not prevent the contributions from moving into broader discussions of nineteenth-century history and philosophy, as well as engaging with recent methodological debates. These discussions will certainly be of interest to readers of Nineteenth-Century Literature. The contributions range from canonical topics to less-trodden ground and are divided into two sections: "Feeling with Melville" and "Thinking with Melville. " The boundary between the parts stays porous throughout the volume, with contributions engaging Melville's works in affective and mental terms. Near the end of the volume, Eliza Richards's "Popular Networks in Melville's Battle-Pieces" observes that through Melville's engagement with popular Civil War poetry, he "is trying to serve as a conduit to distill or temper. . . You do not currently have access to this content.