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Melville biography : an inside narrative
- Title
- Melville biography : an inside narrative / Hershel Parker.
- Author
- Parker, Hershel.
- Publication
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2012.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 13-2509 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xix, 587 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 545-561) and index.
- Contents
- Part I. Biographer and biography: Melville and the footsteps theory of biography -- Textual editor as biographer in training : the Norton Moby-Dick and the Northwestern-Newberry writings of Herman Melville -- Entangled by Pierre : doing biography away from the archives -- Creating the new Melville log and writing the biography -- Facts that do not speak for themselves -- Desiderata and discoveries in traditional archives and databases -- Part II. Critics vs. biographical scholarship: Agenda-driven reviewers : Melville in the insular New York newspapers and magazines vs. global loomings from "ragtag bloggers" and litblogs -- Little Jack Horners and archivophobics -- Biographical scholars and recidivist critics -- Presentism in Melville biography -- The late twentieth-century mini-Melville: New York intellectuals without information -- The early twenty-first-century mini-Melville : New York intellectuals without information -- Part III. The biographer in the workshop: demonstrations and challenges: Melville as the "modern Boccaccio" : the fascinations of Fayaway -- Melville's courtship of Elizabeth Shaw -- Melville's short run of good luck (1845-1849) : fool's paradise without international copyright -- Melville without international copyright (1850-1854) : a Harper "sacrifice" for the "public good" -- Melville and Hawthorne's dinner at the Hotel in Lenox -- Why Melville took Hawthorne to the Holy Land : biography enhanced by databases and an amateur blogger -- Melville as a Titan of literature among high-minded British admirers : the Kory-Kory and Queequeg component -- Damned by dollars : Moby-Dick and the price of genius.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-2509
- ISBN
- 9780810127098 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0810127091 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012022480
- OCLC
- 785079312
- Author
- Parker, Hershel.
- Title
- Melville biography : an inside narrative / Hershel Parker.
- Imprint
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 545-561) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-2509