Melville His World and Work

Name: Melville His World and Work
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ISBN: 9780375702976

ISBN-10: 0375702970

ISBN-13: 9780375702976

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Authors: Andrew Delbanco

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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.

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/12/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.10" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Illustrations Extracts Preface Portraits of Herman Melville


Introduction Melville: From His Time to Ours



Childhood and Youth



Going Native



Becoming a Writer



Escape to New York



Hunting the Whale



Captain America



"Herman Melville Crazy"



Seeing Too Much



The Magazinist



Adrift



Season of Death



The Quiet End


Notes


Aknowledgments


Index