Shadow over the Promised Land: Slavery, Race and Violence in Melville's America

by Carolyn L. Karcher

Examines Melville's poetry as well as works of fiction including WhiteJacket, Benito Cereno, and Moby Dick in order to analyze the nineteenthcentury author's views on slavery, race, and violence

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Carolyn L. Karcher is the author of The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child and the editor of Tourgee's novel Bricks Without Straw.