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PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press

ISBN-100773517863

ISBN-139780773517868

eBay Product ID (ePID)916032

Product Key Features

Number of Pages176 Pages

Publication NameHerman Melville : Stargazer

LanguageEnglish

SubjectAmerican / General, Astronomy

Publication Year1998

TypeTextbook

AuthorBrett Zimmerman

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Science

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN00-268966

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"Herman Melville: Stargazer is an important and exciting work. The scholarship is excellent. I cannot stress too much how valuable it is to scholars to have Melville's astronomical references compiled and explicated and to be made aware that stars and constellations had certain resonances in nineteenth-century science and navigation. The book fills a significant gap in our understanding of Melville's intellectual climate." Bryan C. Short, Department of English, Northern Arizona University "A well-researched, well-written, convincingly argued, informative, thoughtful, necessary, long overdue, superb Melville study. Zimmerman is treating, and treating in an illuminating fashion, an important aspect of Melville's work that has received no real attention." David Ketterer, Department of English, Concordia University

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal813/.3

SynopsisMelville's passion for things astronomical is visible throughout his canon. Zimmerman places Melville's many astronomical citations within the thematic context of the works in which they appear and within the larger cultural and historical context of nineteenth-century studies. In addition he provides a comprehensive catalogue of every reference to astronomy, its practitioners, and related topics in Melville's works. Herman Melville: Stargazer will be of great interest to scholars and students of American literature as well as those interested in the relationship between science and literature., Astronomy fascinated Herman Melville and provided an important and recurring theme in all his writing. He was inspired by uranography, stellar lore, ancient philosophical notions about the nature of the universe, and discoveries and speculations in contemporary astronomy. In Herman Melville: Stargazer Brett Zimmerman investigates Melville's knowledge and literary uses of astronomy, especially within the thematic contexts of Mardi, Clarel, and Billy Budd., World Bank Living Standards Measurement Study No. 112. Assesses evidence of a negative correlation between the number of children born and levels of child schooling by examining their determinants. In many developing countries, as parents have fewer children, they invest more in the health, education, and welfare of each child. This "quantity-quality tradeoff" is vividly illustrated in the recent economic development of Southeast Asia and Latin America. In Sub-Saharan Africa, however, the existence of such a tradeoff has not been established. The few studies conducted to date reveal either no correlation or a slightly positive one, whereby higher fertility rates are linked to greater schooling per child. This study examines the determinants of fertility and of child schooling in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana to assess evidence of a tradeoff, using data from three surveys conducted between 1985 and 1987. The results are mixed. In Côte d'Ivoire, there is evidence of such a tradeoff in urban areas but not rural ones. In urban areas, female schooling, higher income, and improved child survival are associated with lower fertility and higher child schooling. In both rural and urban areas of Ghana, there is a tradeoff between fertility and child schooling with higher incomes, and, in rural Ghana, with increases in mothers' schooling. Also available in French ("La relation entre le nombre des enfants et de la scolarisation: Le cas de la Côte d'Ivoire et du Ghana"): (ISBN 0-8213-3374-7) Stock No. 13374.

LC Classification NumberPS2388.A79Z56 1998