Herman Melville: A Very Short Introduction

Maurice S. Lee is Professor of English at Boston University. He specializes in nineteenth-century American literature and has written several books on how literature relates to such topics as slavery and philosophy, science and chance, and the information revolution of the nineteenth century. Professor Lee has received awards from the Melville Society, Poe Studies Association, and the Association of College and Research Libraries, as well as fellowships from the NEH, ACLS, and Radcliffe Institute of Harvard University.