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“There are dozens of scholars today who write about Melville’s works with fierce insight and intelligence; Geoffrey Sanborn is one of the best of these, and a critic and scholar whose work I return to again and again. His most recent book does a marvelous job of addressing both new readers of Melville and his longtime scholars—it’s a terrific, accessible, and searingly smart introduction to how to read Melville and how to think about his ‘value’ not as something transcendent, but negotiated by each wave of readers.” Read more...
The Best Herman Melville Books
Hester Blum, Literary Scholar
