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Herman Melville : a biography / Hershel Parker.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parker, Hershel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Melville, Herman.
- Novelists, American--19th century--Biography.
- Novelists, American.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1996-c2002.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Volume 1:1819-1851
- The flight of the patrician Wastrel and his second son: 1830
- Herman Melvill's world, 1819-1830: Manhattan, Albany, Boston
- "The terrors of death": Albany, 1831-1832
- The "cholera year": 1832-1833
- In the shadow of the young furrier: Herman as clerk, 1833-1835
- Clerk, farmer, teacher, polemicist: 1836 - May 1838
- Herman in Lansingburgh: full-grown and useless, May 1838 - May 1839
- Sailor and schoolteacher: 1839-1840
- West to seek his fortune: 1840
- The first year of whaling: 1841
- Whaler and runaway: 1842
- Beachcomber and whaler: 1842-1843
- Lahaina and Honolulu: 1843
- Ordinary seaman on the United States: 1843-1844
- Home but not home: October 1844
- The sailor, the orator, and the grand contested election: 1844
- Catching up: 1844
- The sailor and the writing desk: 1844-1845
- A manuscript but no publisher: 1845
- A modern Crusoe: 1846
- International author and the man of the family: 1846
- The resurrection of Toby: 1846
- Winning Elizabeth Shaw and winning the Harpers: 1846
- Office-seeker and reviewer: 1847
- Triumphant author, triumphant lover: 1847
- Scandal and marriage: 1847
- Newlyweds in New York City: 1847
- Mardi as island-hopping symposium: 1847-1848
- Dollars be damned: "the red year forty-eight"
- Malcolm and the fate of Mardi: 1849
- Redburn and White-jacket: summer 1849
- London and a peek at continental life: fall 1849
- The breaching of Mocha Dick: January 1850
- Hiding out on the cannibal island: February - June 1850
- Pittsfield and Hawthorne: June - 7 August 1850
- Hawthorne and his Mosses: 8 August - September 1850
- Writing at Arrowhead: October 1850 - mid-January 1851
- Damned by dollars: mid January - 1 May 1851
- The final dash at The whale: May - September 1851
- Melville in triumph: The whale and the kraken, September - November 1851
- Volume 2: 1851-1891
- Crowned and blindsided: November - December 1851
- "Mad Christmas": December 1851
- The kraken version of Pierre: November - December 1851
- Melville crosses the Rubicon: January 1852
- Riichard Bentley: The whale and Pierre, January - May 1852
- Fool's paradise and the furies unleashed: June - September 1852
- The isle of the cross: September 1852 - June 1853
- The magazinist: idealist turned would-be stoic, July 1853 - January 1854
- The shift away from Herman and Arrowhead: January - March 1854
- Tortoises and Israel Potter: 1854
- "Benito cereno": early 1855
- The confidence man's masquerade: Melville as national satirist, June 1855 - January 1856
- Foreclosing on friendship: confession and shame, February - October 1856
- Liverpool and the levant: late 1856 - February 1857
- Rome to Liverpool, and home: February - April 1857
- "Statues in Rome": May 1857 - February 1858
- "The South Seas": March 1858 - Spring 1859
- The poet and the last lecture, "Travel": summer 1859 - early 1960
- An epic poet on the Metoer: May - October 1860
- The dream of Florence, a state funeral, and war: November 1860 - December 1861
- A humble quest for an aesthetic credo: January - April 1862
- Farewell to Arrowhead and the overthrow of Jehu: April - December 1862
- Displacements: January - June 1863
- Wartime second honeymoon and Manhattan: summer - fall 1863
- The war poet's scout toward Aldie: 1864
- Two years - of war and dubious peace: 1865-1866
- Battle-pieces: poet, poems, reviewers, 1866
- The deputy inspector amid domestic maelstroms: 1867
- A snug harbor for the Melvilles: late 1867-1868
- The man who had known Hawthorne: 1869
- Wall Street, and "Jerusalem": 1870
- The last mustering of the clan and "The wilderness": 1871
- Death, Death, and flight to a snug harbor: 1872
- A family in disarray, and "Mar Saba": 1873
- The new generation, and "Bethlehem": 1874-1875
- Clarel: Melville's centennial epic, 1876
- "Old fogy" and imaginary companions: 1877-1879
- The shadow at the feasts: 1880-1885
- Fragments in a writing desk: 1886-1891
- In and out of the house of the tragic poet: 1886-1891.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Association of American Publishers PROSE Award (volume 2), 2002.
- Association of American Publishers PROSE Award (volume 1), 1996.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Parker, Hershel. Herman Melville.
- ISBN:
- 0801854288
- 9780801854286
- 0801868920
- 9780801868924
- OCLC:
- 34663299
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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