| Herman Melville: Among the Magazines Contributor(s): Thompson, Graham (Author) |
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ISBN: 1625343248 ISBN-13: 9781625343246 Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press OUR PRICE: $32.62 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature |
| Dewey: 813.3 |
| LCCN: 2017020929 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What I feel most moved to write, that is banned, --it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. Herman Melville wrote these words as he struggled to survive as a failing novelist. Between 1853 and 1856, he did write the other way, working exclusively for magazines. He earned more money from his stories than from the combined sales of his most well known novels, Moby-Dick, Pierre, and The Confidence-Man. In Herman Melville Graham Thompson examines the author's magazine work in its original publication context, including stories that became classics, such as Bartelby, the Scrivener and Benito Cereno, alongside lesser-known work. Using a concept he calls embedded authorship, Thompson explores what it meant to be a magazine writer in the 1850s and discovers a new Melville enmeshed with forgotten materials, editors, writers, and literary traditions. He reveals how Melville responded to the practical demands of magazine writing with dazzling displays of innovation that reinvented magazine traditions and helped create the modern short story. |