The first of a two-volume biography of Melville traces his life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of Moby-Dick.
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
These volumes comprise the first half of a comprehensive biography on Melville, grounded in archival research, new scholarship, and incisive critical readings.
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.
This unique introduction explores Herman Melville as he described himself in Billy Budd-"a writer whom few know." Moving beyond the recurring depiction of Melville as the famous author of Moby-Dick,...
Presents a collection of criticism devoted to the work of American author Herman Melville.
Herman Melville: Research Opportunities and Dissertation Abstracts
Taïpi LE E 3 JANVIER 1841 , Melville , qui n'a pas encore 22 ans , s'embarque à New Bedford comme simple matelot à bord de l'Acushnet qui effectue son voyage inaugural . La vie sur le baleinier est inévitablement marquée par une misère ...
This first volume of The Library of America's three-volume edition of the complete prose works of Herman Melville includes three romances of the South Seas.
The complex author of the quintessential American masterpiece is demystified by a leading contemporary critic. Hardwick's novelistic flair reveals a former whaleship deck-hand whose voyages were the stuff of travel...
Es cierto que en los últimos años se han publicado varios volúmenes sobre la historia de la heterosexualidad que apuntan fechas posibles del nacimiento del concepto de la “heterosexualidad”, del “sujeto heterosexual” y de la “pareja ...
The two men make their escape while the crew is on shore leave.
... of the cannibals of Typee: the inns, the docks, the ships, the people of all degrees. he is even more detailed when ishmael has got to sea, in the whaler's true element. The whole literature of whaling, no less than all its devices, ...
In this Readers' Guide, Nick Selby offers a clear view of the development of critical debate about Moby-Dick.
Herman Melville: Pierre, 'The Piazza', 'Hawthorne and his Mosses', Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man
"Herman Melville: A Journey through Classic Novels and Short Stories" is a book that explores the life, works, and legacy of the celebrated American author, Herman Melville.
Zimmerman places Melville's many astronomical citations within the thematic context of the works in which they appear and within the larger cultural and historical context of nineteenth-century studies.
Reprint of an edition originally published by New Directions, Norfolk Connecticut.
Bonded Leather binding
Herman Melville: A Collection of Critical Essays