Introduction

About the lecture

In this module, we provide some introductory material about the life and career of Herman Melville, thinking in particular about his experiences in the South Pacific, his early writings, and his brief but intense relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne.

About the lecturer

Dr Katie McGettigan is Lecturer in American Literature. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century American and transatlantic literature and print culture. Her first book, Herman Melville: Modernity and the Material Text is forthcoming from the University Press of New England. In 2014, she was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship for a project exploring the publication of American Literature in Britain, 1830-1860. Her work has appeared in Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literature and Cultural Relations and the Journal of Culture, Society and Masculinities.