Melville: his world and work
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Picador
2005
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| Physical Description: | XXIII, 415 S. Ill., Kt. |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
EXTRACTS xiii
PREFACE XX
PORTRAITS OF HERMAN MELVILLE XXV
INTRODUCTION
MELVILLE: FROM HIS TIME TO OURS
1.
2.
S. BECOMING A WRITER
4.
5.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
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8.
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11.
12.
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
j Hailed by Time as America s best social a ilic ,
I historical and critical perspective
f biography and riveting portrait of a nation.
Thegiandson
Herman Melville was born into a family thai in
fledgeling republic had lost both money and
loughened at sea as a young man and quint essentially
merican- half New
he returned home to chronicle the deepesl
his time while forever shaping our literatui
Moby-Dick, Baitleby, the Scrivener ,
and Billy Buck!.
Deibanco traces Melville s growth from the bawc
storytelling of Typee through the spiritual
pLeoccupations building up to Moby-Dick and the
piofound disillusionment, of later works, even as he
charts a life that left little evidence in its wake and
was, long before Melville s death, consigned
obscurity. He uncovers autobiographical lraces
throughout Melville s writing, shows the lelenlless
financial pressure and declining critical and populai
P
esteem that, plagued his career, and, above all, |^g|
illuminates the stunning achievements of
Finally we understand how Melville, more than any
other American writer, has captured the popular
imagination, and how Ahab and the White Whale
have become resounding symbols
US but around the woi Id
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