TY - BOOK AU - Haydock,John TI - Melville's intervisionary network: Balzac, Hawthorne, and Realism in the American renaissance SN - 9781942954248 AV - PS2387 U1 - 810.9 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Clemson, South Carolina PB - Clemson University Press KW - Melville, Herman, KW - Balzac, Honoré de, KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Littérature américaine KW - 19e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - American KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note; ch. One; Networked Melville --; ch. Two; International Balzac --; ch. Three; M. de l'Aubepine --; ch. Four; Hawthorne's Secret? --; ch. Five; Transvisionary Translating --; ch. Six; Balzac's Types at Sea --; ch. Seven; Physiology of Thinking --; ch. Eight; American Comedie --; ch. Nine; Toward the Bouddha chretien --; ch. Ten; Clue in the Labyrinth N2 - The romances of Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick and Billy Budd, Sailor, are usually examined from some setting almost exclusively American. European or other planetary contexts are subordinated to local considerations. But while this isolated approach plays well in an arena constructed on American exclusiveness, it does not express the reality of the literary processes swirling around Melville in the middle of the nineteenth century. A series of expanding literary and technological networks was active that made his writing part of a global complex. Honoré de Balzac, popular French writer and creator of realism in the novel, was also in the web of these same networks, both preceding and at the height of Melville?s creativity. Because they engaged in similar intentions, there developed an almost inevitable attraction that brought their works together. Until recently, however, Balzac has not been recognized as a significant influence on Melville during his most creative period. Over the last decade, scholars began to explore literary networks by new methodologies, and the criticism developed out of these strategies pertains usually to modernist, postcolonial, contemporary situations UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1452562 ER -