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Northwestern University Press
Language
English

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Subjects
Criticism, American Novelists, Biography as a literary form, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Biography, History, Melville, herman, 1819-1891, Authors, american, Authors, biography
People
Herman Melville (1819-1891), Hershel Parker
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United States
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19th century

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Melville biography: an inside narrative
2013, Northwestern University Press
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Table of 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
813.3
Library of Congress
PS2388.B54 P37 2013, PS2388.B54 P37 2012, PS2388.B54P37 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25340407M
Internet Archive
melvillebiograph0000park
ISBN 13
9780810127098
LCCN
2012022480
OCLC/WorldCat
785079312

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