Herman Melville, 2 Volume Set - A Half Known Life

Informationen zum Autor JOHN BRYANT is a leading Melville scholar and Professor Emeritus of English at Hofstra University. He is the author of A Companion to Melville Studies , Melville and Repose, The Fluid Text , Melville Unfolding , and over 70 articles on Melville and related nineteenth-century writers. He is the founder of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies , and of the Melville Electronic Library. He received the Distinguished Editor Award from Council of Editors of Learned Journals in 2015. Klappentext A COMPREHENSIVE EXPLORATION OF MELVILLE'S FORMATIVE YEARS, PROVIDING A NEW BIOGRAPHICAL FOUNDATION FOR TODAY'S GENERATION OF MELVILLE READERS. Herman Melville: A Half Known Life (Volumes 1 and 2) follows the unfoldings of an unpromising child, wayward adolescent, and uncommon sailor who became one of the world's greatest writers. These volumes comprise a comprehensive biography of the first half of Melville's life grounded in archival research, new scholarship, and incisive critical readings. Culminating with Melville's astonishing arrival on the literary scene with the publication of Typee in 1846, they cover Melville's family history and literary friendships; his father-longing, god-hunger, and search for the roots of Being; the genesis of his liberal politics, and his life-long evolving empathy for African Americans, Native Americans, Polynesians, South Americans, immigrants, and the dispossessed. The biography presents new information regarding Melville's early reading, his schooling, debating, and acting experience, his learning to write alongside a coterie of gifted siblings, his life at sea and on the road, and the unsettling death of his older, rival brother from mercury poisoning. A major addition to Melville scholarship, this important biographical study: Explores the intimate nature of Melville's creative consciousness, through the lens of his revisions in manuscript and print Assesses the range of his masculinities and his love for women and men 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, The Confidence-Man, and his epic Clarel to his shorter works, including "Bartleby," his poetry, and his last novella Billy Budd Places Melville's life and works in the context of cultural and historical events from the American revolution of his grandparents to the traumas of the Jacksonian era, including cholera pandemic, whaling, slavery, and economic depression, New York street life and theater, Indian removal, and westward expansion; poverty in Liverpool, the Brazilian transatlantic slave trade, revolution in Peru, and Pacific imperialism Underscores Melville's relevance for contemporary democratic society Written in an engaging style for scholars and general readers alike, Herman Melville: A Half Known Life, Volumes 1 and 2 integrates Melville's life and work in the context of early to modern American and literary culture. It is indispensable for readers seeking new insights into Melville biography and new ways of reading Melville. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive exploration of Melville's formative years, providing a new biographical foundation for today's generations of Melville readersHerman 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 consciousnes...

List of contents

Volume 1 Eternal Ifs: Infant, Boy, and Man (1819-1840) 0
 
Introduction 5347
 
1 Manhattan and Albany (1819-1832) 0
 
Chap 1 Last Leaves, New Leaf 5085
 
Chap 2 Commerce and Providence 3248
 
Chap 3 Home and Street 6921
 
Chap 4 Awakenings 6487
 
Chap 5 The Secret of Our Paternity 7042
 
Chap 6 Marriage of New England and New York 2647
 
Chap 7 Recuperations 2588
 
Chap 8 School Boy and Reader 4694
 
Chap 9 The Birth of Ishmael 3166
 
2 Growing up Gansevoort (1832-1836) 0
 
Chap 10 Patriarch and Hero 4153
 
Chap 11 Gansevoort and the Indians 3373
 
Chap 12 Broken Temple 4576
 
Chap 13 Jackson and the Negro 2706
 
Chap 14 Albany and Africa 4625
 
Chap 15 Black Gansevoort 3092
 
Chap 16 Mourning and Arousal 4922
 
Chap 17 Summer of Plague 5104
 
Chap 18 Spoils and Debt 1811
 
Chap 19 Working Boy: Steam & Temptation 4525
 
Chap 20 Moving Up 3433
 
3 Sibling Coterie (1836) 0
 
Chap 21 Brother Gansevoort 6562
 
Chap 22 Happiness and Power 4568
 
Chap 23 Sister Helen 4116
 
*Chap 24 Emancipated School Girl 7423
 
Chap 25 Sister Augusta 6307
 
Chap 26 Dark-eyed Darling 5368
 
Chap 27 Composing Yourself 4830
 
4 Inland Identities:
 
Farmer, Teacher, Debater, Lover, Writer (1836-1839) 0
 
*Chap 28 "Deep Inland There I" 4327
 
Chap 29 Uncle Thomas 5732
 
Chap 30 Schoolmaster 6065
 
Chap 31 Debater and Cosmopolite 8335
 
Chap 32 Lansingburgh: River Banks & Bankruptcy 2911
 
Chap 33 The Intimacy of Reading 6206
 
Chap 34 Occasional Writting & Reading 5813
 
*Chap 35 Love is then our Duty 6862
 
Chap 36 Published Writer 4784
 
5 The Imperative of Travel (1839) 0
 
Chap 37 On the Go Off 4607
 
Chap 38 Circumambulating Manhattan 3617
 
Chap 39 Heading Out to Sea 2892
 
Chap 40 Brotherhood of Outcasts 4860
 
Chap 41 Secret Sympathy 3448
 
6 First Voyage (1839) 0
 
Chap 42 Along the Marge 1941
 
Chap 43 His First Crew 3472
 
Chap 44 Learning the Ropes 4414
 
Chap 45 No School Like a Ship
 
for Studying Human Nature 4512
 
Chap 46 Irish Sea and Liverpool 5461
 
7 Liverpool and Back (1839-1840) 0
 
Chap 47 The Liverpool of His Father 5458
 
Chap 48 Roscoe and the Picture of Liverpool 6584
 
Chap 49 What Melville Saw in Liverpool 4035
 
Chap 50 The Moment of Liverpool 4460
 
Chap 51 Home Again: Teacher Again 5005
 
Chap 52 Rent 5153
 
Chap 53 Maria's Boys 7029
 
Volume 2 Melville at Sea (1840-1846)
 
8 Out West (1840) 0
 
Chap 54 On the Road 3253
 
Chap 55 On the Canal 3653
 
Chap 56 Up in Michigan 2303
 
Chap 57 Chicago and Galena 2670
 
Chap 58 Versions of Prairie 2731
 
Chap 59 The Falls of St. Anthony 1464
 
Chap 60 Lonely Watcher 3168
 
Chap 61 Rivers and Scars 6134
 
9 The Atlantic (1841) 0
 
Chap 62 Four Weeks' Residence in Manhattan 4139
 
Chap 63 Mean Streets 5723
 
Chap 64 New Bedford 4669
 
Chap 65 Ready for Sea 3842
 
Chap 66 Ship and Space 6203
 
Chap 67 First Lowering 6155
 
Chap 68 Unimaginable Accidents 4642
 
Chap 69 Tornadoed Atlantic of My Being 5235
 
10 The Pacific (1841-1842) 0
 
Chap 70 My Dear Pacific 4568
 
Chap 71 Work and Love 5237
 
Chap 72 This Thing of the Essex 6500
 
Chap 73 F

Product details

• Authors: John Bryant, John (Hofstra University) Bryant
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781405121903
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-2190-3
• No. of pages: 1392
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Literaturwissenschaft, Amerikanische Literatur, Literaturkritik, Melville, Herman, Literature, Literaturkritik u. -geschichte, Literary Criticism & History, American Literature, Literary Biography, Literarische Biographien