Melville : his world and work /

Delbanco, Andrew, 1952-

Melville : his world and work / Andrew Delbanco. - 1st ed. - New York : Knopf, 2005. - xxiii, 415 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-386) and index.

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.

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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.


Novelists, American--19th century--Biography.
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Social problems in literature.

PS 2386 / .D44 2005