Melville

Melville
Author: Andrew Delbanco
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2013-02-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 030783171X

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If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that Melville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded — in his books, letters, and marginalia; and in conversations with friends like Nathaniel Hawthorne and with his literary cronies in Manhattan — an incomparable chapter of American history. From the bawdy storytelling of Typee to the spiritual preoccupations building up to and beyond Moby Dick, Delbanco brilliantly illuminates Melville’s life and work, and his crucial role as a man of American letters.


Melville
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Andrew Delbanco
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-20 - Publisher: Vintage

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If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight
Herman Melville
Language: en
Pages: 1070
Authors: Hershel Parker
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Traces Melville's life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of "Moby-Dick," and forty years later, to his
Melville Biography
Language: en
Pages: 609
Authors: Hershel Parker
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Northwestern University Press

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Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative is Hershel Parker’s history of the writing of Melville biographies, enriched by his intimate working relationships wit
Melville in His Own Time
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Steven Olsen-Smith
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06 - Publisher: University of Iowa Press

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Owing to the decline of his contemporary fame and to decades of posthumous neglect, Herman Melville remains enigmatic to readers despite his status as one of Am
Herman Melville
Language: en
Pages: 210
Authors: Kevin J. Hayes
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-15 - Publisher: Reaktion Books

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Herman Melville is hailed as one of the greats—if not the greatest—of American literature. Born in New York in 1819, he first achieved recognition for his d