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.
0375403140
2005040919
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
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.
0375403140
2005040919
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