Delbanco, Andrew,  1952- <br/><br/>
Melville :  his world and work / 
Andrew Delbanco. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Knopf,  2005. 
 - xxiii, 415 p. :  ill., maps, ports. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-386) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0375403140 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005040919 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Novelists, American--19th century--Biography.<br/>Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Social problems in literature.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 2386  / .D44 2005