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Melville Biography
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Author : Hershel Parker
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2012
Melville Biography written by Hershel Parker and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative is Hershel Parker’s history of the writing of Melville biographies, enriched by his intimate working relationships with great Melvilleans, dead and living. The first part is a mesmerizing autobiographical account of what went into creating his award-winning two-volume life of Herman Melville. Next, Parker traces six decades the persistent war New Critics have waged against biographical scholarship on Melville. American literary critics, he finds, impose New Critical theories of organic unity on Melville’s disrupted career even while truncating his body of work and minimizing his aesthetic interests. Parker celebrates the "divine amateurs" who use new technology to discover dazzling Melville stories and also lauds the writers of literature blogs as potential redeemers of academic and mainstream media reviewing. In the third part, Parker invites readers into his biographical workshop and challenges them with ambitious research assignments. Throughout this bold book, Parker seeks to reinvigorate the all-but-lost art of scholarly literary criticism and biography.
Herman Melville 1819 1851
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Author : Hershel Parker
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1996
Herman Melville 1819 1851 written by Hershel Parker and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Novelists, American categories.
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 death, in obscurity.
Herman Melville
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Author : Hershel Parker
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1996
Herman Melville written by Hershel Parker and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 death, in obscurity.
Herman Melville
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Author : John Bryant
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2020-10-26
Herman Melville written by John Bryant and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A comprehensive exploration of Melville’s formative years, providing a new biographical foundation for today’s generations of Melville readers Herman Melville: A Half Known Life, Volumes 1 and 2, follows Herman Melville’s life from early childhood to his astonishing emergence as a bestselling novelist with the publication of Typee in 1846. These volumes comprise the first half of a comprehensive biography on Melville, grounded in archival research, new scholarship, and incisive critical readings. Author John Bryant, a distinguished Melville scholar, editor, critic, and educator, traces the events and experiences that shaped the many-stranded consciousness of one of literature’s greatest writers. This in-depth and innovative biography covers Melville’s family history and literary friendships, his father-longing, god-hunger, and search for the hidden nature of Being, the genesis of his liberal politics, his empathy for African Americans, Native Americans, Polynesians, South Americans, and immigrants. Original perspectives on Melville’s earliest identities—orphaned son, sibling, farmer, teacher, debater, lover, actor, sailor—provide the context for Melville’s evolution as a writer. The biography presents new information regarding Melville’s reading, his early orations and acting experience, his life at sea and on the road, and the unsettling death of his older, rival brother from mercury poisoning. It provides insights on experiences such as Melville’s trauma at the loss of his father, his learning to write amidst a coterie siblings, his struggles to find work during economic depression, his journey West, his life in whaling and in the navy, and his vagabondage in the South Pacific during the moment of American and European imperial incursions. A significant addition to Melville scholarship, this important biographical work: Explores the nature and development of Melville’s creative consciousness, through the lens of his revisions in manuscript and print Assesses Melville’s sexual growth and exploration of the spectrum of his masculinities Highlights Melville’s relevance in contemporary democratic society Discusses Melville’s blending of dark humor and tragedy in his unique version of the picturesque Examines the ‘replaying’ of Melville’s life traumas throughout his entire works, from Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, Pierre, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man to his shorter works, including “Bartleby,” his epic Clarel, his poetry, and his last novella Billy Budd Covers such cultural and historical events as the American revolution of his grandparents, the whaling industry, New York slavery, street life and theater in Manhattan, the transatlantic slave trade, the Jacksonian economy, Indian removal, Pacific colonialism, and westward expansion Written in an engaging style for scholars and general readers alike, Herman Melville: A Half Known Life, Volumes 1 and 2 is an indispensable new source of information and insights for those interested in Melville, 19th-century and modern literature and culture, and readers of general American history and literary culture.
Herman Melville 1851 1891
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Author : Hershel Parker
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1996
Herman Melville 1851 1891 written by Hershel Parker and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Through prodigious archival research into hundreds of family letters and diary entries, newly discovered newspaper articles, and marginalia from books that Melville owned, Parker vividly recreates the last four decades of Melville's life, episode after episode unknown to previous biographers. Illustrations.
Herman Melville
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Author : Kevin J. Hayes
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2017-08-15
Herman Melville written by Kevin J. Hayes and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 daring stylistic innovations, but it was Moby-Dick that would win him global fame. In this new critical biography, Kevin J. Hayes surveys Melville’s major works and sheds new light on the writer’s unpredictable professional and personal life. Hayes opens the book with an exploration of the revival of interest in Melville’s work thirty years after his death, which coincided with the aftermath of World War I and the rise of modernism. He goes on to examine the composition and reception of Melville’s works, including his first two books, Typee and Omoo, and the novels, short fiction, and poetry he wrote during the forty years after the publication of Moby-Dick. Incorporating a wealth of new information about Melville’s life and the times in which he lived, the book is a concise and engaging introduction to the life of a celebrated but often misunderstood writer.
Herman Melville
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Author : Leon Howard
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Herman Melville written by Leon Howard and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951.
Herman Melville
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Author : Leon Howard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
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Melville
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Author : Laurie Robertson-Lorant
language : en
Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
Release Date : 1996
Melville written by Laurie Robertson-Lorant and has been published by Clarkson Potter Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With energetic prose and a gift for relating colorful detail, Laurie Robertson-Lorant presents a richly written biography of Herman Melville, whose life of adventure, struggle, and moral conflict mirrored the themes in his writing, including his masterpiece of world literature, Moby Dick. 40 illustrations.
Herman Melville Mariner And Mystic
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Author : Raymond M. Weaver
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-10-26
Herman Melville Mariner And Mystic written by Raymond M. Weaver and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-26 with Fiction categories.
"Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic" by Raymond M. Weaver is a comprehensive biography that offers a deep and insightful exploration of the life and literary contributions of the renowned author Herman Melville. Weaver's biography delves into Melville's experiences as a sailor, his creative process, and the philosophical and mystical themes that permeate his works, such as "Moby-Dick." This book provides a nuanced portrait of Melville as both a mariner and a writer, shedding light on the complexities of his character and the evolution of his literary career. For admirers of Melville's writing and those curious about the man behind the classics, this biography is an essential and illuminating read.