Bøger af Brian Yothers

A history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history.

An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half.

Herman Melville's oeuvre sustains a fundamental tension among self, society, and others. Sacred Uncertainty explores religious difference that arises from these many voices, both within American culture and around the world.

Engages with the range of American travel writing about nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine. This book acknowledges the influence of the late-eighteenth-century Barbary captivity narrative on nineteenth-century travel writing about the Middle East.