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Herman Melville

A Half Known Life
1. Aufl.

von: John Bryant
256,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley-Blackwell
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	26.10.2020
ISBN/EAN:	9781119106005
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	1392

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A comprehensive exploration of Melville's formative years, providing a new biographical foundation for today's generations of Melville readers Herman Melville: A Half Known Life, Volumes 1 and 2, follows Herman Melville's life from early childhood to his astonishing emergence as a bestselling novelist with the publication of Typee in 1846. These volumes comprise the first half of a comprehensive biography on Melville, grounded in archival research, new scholarship, and incisive critical readings. Author John Bryant, a distinguished Melville scholar, editor, critic, and educator, traces the events and experiences that shaped the many-stranded consciousness of one of literature’s greatest writers. This in-depth and innovative biography covers Melville's family history and literary friendships, his father-longing, god-hunger, and search for the hidden nature of Being, the genesis of his liberal politics, his empathy for African Americans, Native Americans, Polynesians, South Americans, and immigrants. Original perspectives on Melville’s earliest identities—orphaned son, sibling, farmer, teacher, debater, lover, actor, sailor—provide the context for Melville’s evolution as a writer. The biography presents new information regarding Melville's reading, his early orations and acting experience, his life at sea and on the road, and the unsettling death of his older, rival brother from mercury poisoning. It provides insights on experiences such as Melville's trauma at the loss of his father, his learning to write amidst a coterie siblings, his struggles to find work during economic depression, his journey West, his life in whaling and in the navy, and his vagabondage in the South Pacific during the moment of American and European imperial incursions. A significant addition to Melville scholarship, this important biographical work: <ul> <li>Explores the nature and development of Melville's creative consciousness, through the lens of his revisions in manuscript and print</li> <li>Assesses Melville's sexual growth and exploration of the spectrum of his masculinities</li> <li>Highlights Melville's relevance in contemporary democratic society</li> <li>Discusses Melville's blending of dark humor and tragedy in his unique version of the picturesque</li> <li>Examines the 'replaying' of Melville's life traumas throughout his entire works, from Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, Pierre, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man to his shorter works, including "Bartleby," his epic Clarel, his poetry, and his last novella Billy Budd</li> <li>Covers such cultural and historical events as the American revolution of his grandparents, the whaling industry, New York slavery, street life and theater in Manhattan, the transatlantic slave trade, the Jacksonian economy, Indian removal, Pacific colonialism, and westward expansion</li> </ul> Written in an engaging style for scholars and general readers alike, Herman Melville: A Half Known Life, Volumes 1 and 2 is an indispensable new source of information and insights for those interested in Melville, 19th-century and modern literature and culture, and readers of general American history and literary culture.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1 Eternal Ifs: Infant, Boy, and Man (1819-1840) 0 Introduction 5347 1 Manhattan and Albany (1819-1832) 0 Chap 1 Last Leaves, New Leaf 5085 Chap 2 Commerce and Providence 3248 Chap 3 Home and Street 6921 Chap 4 Awakenings 6487 Chap 5 The Secret of Our Paternity 7042 Chap 6 Marriage of New England and New York 2647 Chap 7 Recuperations 2588 Chap 8 School Boy and Reader 4694 Chap 9 The Birth of Ishmael 3166 2 Growing up Gansevoort (1832-1836) 0 Chap 10 Patriarch and Hero 4153 Chap 11 Gansevoort and the Indians 3373 Chap 12 Broken Temple 4576 Chap 13 Jackson and the Negro 2706 Chap 14 Albany and Africa 4625 Chap 15 Black Gansevoort 3092 Chap 16 Mourning and Arousal 4922 Chap 17 Summer of Plague 5104 Chap 18 Spoils and Debt 1811 Chap 19 Working Boy: Steam & Temptation 4525 Chap 20 Moving Up 3433 3 Sibling Coterie (1836) 0 Chap 21 Brother Gansevoort 6562 Chap 22 Happiness and Power 4568 Chap 23 Sister Helen 4116 *Chap 24 Emancipated School Girl 7423 Chap 25 Sister Augusta 6307 Chap 26 Dark-eyed Darling 5368 Chap 27 Composing Yourself 4830 4 Inland Identities: Farmer, Teacher, Debater, Lover, Writer (1836-1839) 0 *Chap 28 “Deep Inland There I” 4327 Chap 29 Uncle Thomas 5732 Chap 30 Schoolmaster 6065 Chap 31 Debater and Cosmopolite 8335 Chap 32 Lansingburgh: River Banks & Bankruptcy 2911 Chap 33 The Intimacy of Reading 6206 Chap 34 Occasional Writting & Reading 5813 *Chap 35 Love is then our Duty 6862 Chap 36 Published Writer 4784 5 The Imperative of Travel (1839) 0 Chap 37 On the Go Off 4607 Chap 38 Circumambulating Manhattan 3617 Chap 39 Heading Out to Sea 2892 Chap 40 Brotherhood of Outcasts 4860 Chap 41 Secret Sympathy 3448 6 First Voyage (1839) 0 Chap 42 Along the Marge 1941 Chap 43 His First Crew 3472 Chap 44 Learning the Ropes 4414 Chap 45 No School Like a Ship for Studying Human Nature 4512 Chap 46 Irish Sea and Liverpool 5461 7 Liverpool and Back (1839-1840) 0 Chap 47 The Liverpool of His Father 5458 Chap 48 Roscoe and the Picture of Liverpool 6584 Chap 49 What Melville Saw in Liverpool 4035 Chap 50 The Moment of Liverpool 4460 Chap 51 Home Again: Teacher Again 5005 Chap 52 Rent 5153 Chap 53 Maria’s Boys 7029 Volume 2 Melville at Sea (1840-1846) 8 Out West (1840) 0 Chap 54 On the Road 3253 Chap 55 On the Canal 3653 Chap 56 Up in Michigan 2303 Chap 57 Chicago and Galena 2670 Chap 58 Versions of Prairie 2731 Chap 59 The Falls of St. Anthony 1464 Chap 60 Lonely Watcher 3168 Chap 61 Rivers and Scars 6134 9 The Atlantic (1841) 0 Chap 62 Four Weeks’ Residence in Manhattan 4139 Chap 63 Mean Streets 5723 Chap 64 New Bedford 4669 Chap 65 Ready for Sea 3842 Chap 66 Ship and Space 6203 Chap 67 First Lowering 6155 Chap 68 Unimaginable Accidents 4642 Chap 69 Tornadoed Atlantic of My Being 5235 10 The Pacific (1841-1842) 0 Chap 70 My Dear Pacific 4568 Chap 71 Work and Love 5237 Chap 72 This Thing of the Essex 6500 Chap 73 Forecastle Conversation 6267 Chap 74 Lover of the Picturesque 3791 Chap 75 Versions of Picturesque 2772 11 The Marquesas (1842) 0 Chap 76 Nuku Hiva 5488 Chap 77 Jumping Ship 6280 Chap 78 Island Masculinities 5918 Chap 79 Taipi and Typee 6187 Chap 80 Escaping Paradise 6413 12 Tahiti, Eimeo, Hawai'i (1842-1843) 0 Chap 81 Good and Faithful Seaman 4839 Chap 82 Reluctant Mutineer 4490 Chap 83 Resistance and Vulnerability 4323 Chap 84 Comic Consciousness 5039 Chap 85 Tahiti As Is 5916 Chap 86 Cosmopolitan Polynesia 4629 Chap 87 Not Until Honolulu Was I Aware 5633 Chap 88 Colonial Consciousness 4412 13 In the Navy (1843-1844) 0 Chap 89 Herman Melville O. S. 6074 Chap 90 Ordinary Seamen 5030 Chap 91 Miracle of Art 4840 Chap 92 Tearless in Lima 3259 Chap 93 Humiliation and Riot 5137 Chap 94 Theater of War 4752 14 Sailor Come Home (1844-1845) 0 Chap 95 Beloved Brother 8027 Chap 96 Tableaux Vivants 7189 Chap 97 First Unfoldings 5811 15 Writing Typee (1845-1846) 0 Chap 98 Tinker, Alter, Erupt 4982 Chap 99 The Language of My Companion 6225 Chap 100 Translating Taipi 5358 Chap 101 Melville in Eruption 5192 Chap 102 Smuggling Verbalist 4450 16 Practiced Writer (1846) 0 Chap 103 Brothers Together 7857 Chap 104 Broken Sword 4900 Total 253761 vol. 1 256702 vol. 2 253761

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JOHN BRYANT is a leading Melville scholar and Professor Emeritus of English at Hofstra University. He is the author of A Companion to Melville Studies, Melville and Repose, The Fluid Text, Melville Unfolding, and over 70 articles on Melville and related nineteenth-century writers. He is the founder of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, and of the Melville Electronic Library. He received the Distinguished Editor Award from Council of Editors of Learned Journals in 2015.

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A COMPREHENSIVE EXPLORATION OF MELVILLE'S FORMATIVE YEARS, PROVIDING A NEW BIOGRAPHICAL FOUNDATION FOR TODAY'S GENERATION OF MELVILLE READERS. Herman Melville: A Half Known Life (Volumes 1 and 2) follows the unfoldings of an unpromising child, wayward adolescent, and uncommon sailor who became one of the world's greatest writers. These volumes comprise a comprehensive biography of the first half of Melville's life grounded in archival research, new scholarship, and incisive critical readings. Culminating with Melville's astonishing arrival on the literary scene with the publication of Typee in 1846, they cover Melville's family history and literary friendships; his father-longing, god-hunger, and search for the roots of Being; the genesis of his liberal politics, and his life-long evolving empathy for African Americans, Native Americans, Polynesians, South Americans, immigrants, and the dispossessed. The biography presents new information regarding Melville's early reading, his schooling, debating, and acting experience, his learning to write alongside a coterie of gifted siblings, his life at sea and on the road, and the unsettling death of his older, rival brother from mercury poisoning. A major addition to Melville scholarship, this important biographical study: <ul> <li>Explores the intimate nature of Melville's creative consciousness, through the lens of his revisions in manuscript and print</li> <li>Assesses the range of his masculinities and his love for women and men</li> <li>Discusses Melville's blending of dark humor and tragedy in his unique version of the picturesque</li> <li>Examines the "replaying" of Melville's life traumas throughout his entire works, from Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man, and his epic Clarel to his shorter works, including "Bartleby," his poetry, and his last novella Billy Budd</li> <li>Places Melville's life and works in the context of cultural and historical events from the American revolution of his grandparents to the traumas of the Jacksonian era, including cholera pandemic, whaling, slavery, and economic depression, New York street life and theater, Indian removal, and westward expansion; poverty in Liverpool, the Brazilian transatlantic slave trade, revolution in Peru, and Pacific imperialism</li> <li>Underscores Melville's relevance for contemporary democratic society</li> </ul> Written in an engaging style for scholars and general readers alike, Herman Melville: A Half Known Life, Volumes 1 and 2 integrates Melville's life and work in the context of early to modern American and literary culture. It is indispensable for readers seeking new insights into Melville biography and new ways of reading Melville.