| Melville: His World and Work Contributor(s): Delbanco, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375702970 ISBN-13: 9780375702976 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2006 Annotation: If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian's perspective and a critic's insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that Melville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded -- in his books, letters, and marginalia; and in conversations with friends like Nathaniel Hawthorne and with his literary cronies in Manhattan -- an incomparable chapter of American history. From the bawdy storytelling of "Typee" to the spiritual preoccupations building up to and beyond" Moby Dick," Delbanco brilliantly illuminates Melville's life and work, and his crucial role as a man of American letters. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 5.32" W x 8.04" (0.90 lbs) 448 pages |
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| Publisher Description: If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian's perspective and a critic's insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that Melville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded -- in his books, letters, and marginalia; and in conversations with friends like Nathaniel Hawthorne and with his literary cronies in Manhattan -- an incomparable chapter of American history. From the bawdy storytelling of Typee to the spiritual preoccupations building up to and beyond Moby Dick, Delbanco brilliantly illuminates Melville's life and work, and his crucial role as a man of American letters. |