Not exact matches
Tracing the course
of the
author's work from Typee to Billy Budd, Kelley shows convincingly that Melville — though he borrowed from many different sources — belongs completely to none
of the established
genres of Victorian city writing: the Romantic pastoral that used urban depravity to extol rural virtue; the popular «Reform Literature»
of the yellow journalists that sensationalized municipal corruption and disorder; the «scientific» tracts
of the
emerging city planning movement; or the urban strolls
of the flâneur and the Addisonian «spectator» (a
genre that reached its peak, for New York, with what Kelley calls the «humorous - genteel - sentimental - melodramatic - ironic» observations
of Charles Dickens in his 1842 American Notes).
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