Herman Melville : a biography

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Herman Melville : a biography

Hershel Parker

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996-2002

  • v. 1 (hbk)
  • v. 2 (hbk)
  • v. 1 : pbk
  • v. 2 : pbk

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Paperback ed.: 23 cm

Vol. 1: 1819-1851 (941 p., index: p. 913-941) -- v. 2: 1851-1891

Includes bibliographical references and index

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v. 1 (hbk) ISBN 9780801854286

内容説明

This is the first volume of a two-volume project which provides a biography of Melville. The author reveals the ups, downs and impasses of Melville's life, from his patrician birth in New York to the publication of "Moby Dick, or The Whale" in 1851. Born to an aristocratic father with a taste for luxury but no instinct for his business as an importer of French dry goods, Melville grew up taking his patrician condition for granted. But when only 11 years old, he helped his father hustle the family furniture out of town to save it from seizure by creditors. The fragility of wealth and status, and the gap between appearance and truth had become all too clear. After the death of Melville's father in 1832, the widow and eight children experienced humiliating dependency. Herman's older brother became the man of the family, and Herman passed his boyhood in confining office work broken by stretches of worried idleness and fruitless job hunting until he went to sea - first, briefly, in 1839, then to the Pacific as a whaleman in 1841. When he returned home with a book to write, Herman, reenacting the familiar financial strains of his childhood, made a living from his writing no better than his father had done as a merchant. A scholar of Melville's life, works and milieu, Parker starts by pinpointing the facts of Melville's life. More important, he pulls those facts together, making sense of their manifold implications, and recreating the scenes, moods, attitudes and atmospheres through which Meville moved.

目次

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements The Flight of the Patrician Wastrel and His Second Son: 1830 Herman Melvill's World, 1819-1830: Manhattan, Albany, Boston "The Terrors of Death": Albany, 1831-1832 The "Cholera Year":1832-1833 In the Shadow of the Young Furrier: Herman as Clerk, 1833-1835 Clerk, Farmer, Teacher, Polemicist: 1836-May 1838 Herman in Lansingburgh: Full-grown and Useless, May 1838-May 1839 Sailor and Schoolteacher: 1839-1840 West to Seek His Fortune: 1840 The First Year of Whaling: 1841 Whaler and Runaway: 1842 Beachcomber and Whaler: 1842-1843 Lahaina and Honolulu: 1843 Ordinary Seaman on the United States: 1843-1844 Home but Not Home: October 1844 The Sailor, the Orator, and the Grand Contested Election: 1844 The Sailor at the Writing Desk: 1844-1845 A Manuscript but No Publisher: 1845 A Modern Crusoe: 1846 International Author and the Man of the Family: 1846 The Resurrection of Toby: 1846 Winning Elizabeth Shaw and Winning the Harpers: 1846 Office-Seeker and Reviewer: 1847 Triumphant Author, Triumphant Lover: 1847 Scandal and Marriage: 1847 Newlyweds in New York City: 1847 Mardi as Island-Hopping Symposium:1847-1848 Dollars Be Damned: "The Red Year Forty-Eight" Malcolm and the Face of Mardi: 1849 Redburn and White-Jacket: Summer 1849 London and a Peek at Continental Life: Fall 1849 The Breaching of Mocha Dick: January 1850 Hiding Out on the Cannibal Island: February-June 1850 Pittsfield and Hawthorne: June-7 August 1850 Hawthorne and His Mosses: 8 August-September 1850 Writing at Arrowhead: October 1850-Mid-January 1851 Damned By Dollars: Mid-January-1 May 1851 The Final Dash at The Whale: May-September 1851 Melville in Triumph: The Whale and the Kraken, September-November 1851Genealogical Charts Documentation Index
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v. 2 (hbk) ISBN 9780801868924

内容説明

The first volume of Hershel Parker's definitive biography of Herman Melville - a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize - closed on a mid-November day in 1851. In the dining room of the Little Red Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts, Melville had just presented an inscribed copy of his new novel, "Moby-Dick", to his intimate friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the man to whom the work was dedicated. "Take it all in all," Parker concluded, "this was the happiest day of Melville's life." This second volume chronicles Melville's life from this ecstatic moment to his death, in obscurity, 40 years later. Parker describes the malignity of reviewers and sheer bad luck that doomed Moby-Dick to failure (and its author to prolonged indebtedness), the savage reviews he received for his next book "Pierre", and his inability to have the novel "The Isle of the Cross" - now lost - published at all. Melville turned to magazine fiction, writing the now-classic "Bartleby" and "Benito Cereno," and produced a final novel, "The Confidence Man", a mordant satire of American optimism. Over his last three decades, while working as a customs inspector in Manhattan, Melville painstakingly remade himself as a poet, crafting the centennial epic "Clarel", in which he sorted out his complex feelings for Hawthorne, and the masterful story "Billy Budd," originally written as a prose headnote to an unfinished poem. Through prodigious archival research into hundreds of family letters and diary entries, newly discovered newspaper articles, and marginalia from books that Melville owned, Parker recreates the last four decades of Melville's life, episode after episode previously unknown.

目次

  • Crowned and Blindsided, November-December 1851
  • "Mad Christmas" 1851
  • The Kraken Version of Pierre, November-December 1851
  • Melville Crosses the Rubicon, January 1852
  • Richard Bentley: The Whale and Pierre, January-May 1852
  • Fool's Paradise and the Furies Unleashed, June-September 1852
  • The Isle of the Cross, September 1852-June 1853
  • The Magazinist: Idealist Turned Would-Be Stoic, July1853 -January 1854
  • The Shift Away from Herman and Arrowhead, January-March 1854
  • Tortoises and Israel Potter, 1854
  • "Benito Cereno," Early 1855
  • The Confidence Man's Masquerade: Melville as National Satirist, June 1855-January 1856
  • Foreclosing on Friendship: Confession and Shame, February 1856-October 1856
  • Liverpool and the Levant, Late 1856-February 1857
  • Rome to Liverpool, and Home, February-April 1857
  • "Statues in Rome," May 1857-November 1858
  • "The South Seas," March 1858-Spring 1859
  • The Poet and the Last Lecture, "Travel," Summer 1859-Early 1860
  • An Epic Poet on the Meteor, May 1860-October 1860
  • The Dream of Florence, A State Funeral, and War, November 1860-December 1861
  • A Humble Quest for an Aesthetic Credo, January-April 1862
  • Farewell to Arrowhead and the Overthrow of Jehu, April-December 1862
  • Displacements, January-June 1863
  • Wartime Second Honeymoon & Manhattan for Good, Summer-Fall 1863
  • The War Poet's Scout Toward Aldie, 1864
  • Two Years of War and Dubious Peace, 1865-1866
  • Battle-Pieces: Poet, Poems, Reviewers, 1866
  • Domestic Life with a "Psychological Cerberus," 1867
  • A Snug Harbor for the Melvilles, Late 1867-1868
  • The Man Who had Known Hawthorne, 1869
  • West Street and "Jerusalem," 1870
  • The Last Mustering of the Clan, and "The Wilderness," 1871
  • Death, Death, and Flight to a Snug Harbor, 1872
  • A Family in Disarray
  • & "Mar Saba," 1873
  • The New Generation and "Bethlehem," 1874-1875
  • Clarel: Melville's Centennial Epic, 1876
  • "Old Fogy" and Imaginary Companions, 1877-1880
  • The Shadow at the Feasts, 1880-1885
  • Fragments in a Writing-Desk, 1886-1891
  • In and Out of the House of the Tragic Poet, 1886-1891.
巻冊次

v. 2 : pbk ISBN 9780801881862

内容説明

The first volume of Hershel Parker's definitive biography of Herman Melville-a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize-closed on a mid-November day in 1851. In the dining room of the Little Red Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts, Melville had just presented an inscribed copy of his new novel, Moby-Dick, to his intimate friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the man to whom the work was dedicated. "Take it all in all," Parker concluded, "this was the happiest day of Melville's life." Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 2, 1851-1891 chronicles Melville's life in rich detail, from this ecstatic moment to his death, in obscurity, forty years later. Parker describes the malignity of reviewers and sheer bad luck that doomed Moby-Dick to failure (and its author to prolonged indebtedness), the savage reviews he received for his next book Pierre, and his inability to have the novel The Isle of the Cross-now lost-published at all. Melville turned to magazine fiction, writing the now-classic "Bartleby" and "Benito Cereno," and produced a final novel, The Confidence Man, a mordant satire of American optimism. Over his last three decades, while working as a customs inspector in Manhattan, Melville painstakingly remade himself as a poet, crafting the centennial epic Clarel, in which he sorted out his complex feelings for Hawthorne, and the masterful story "Billy Budd," originally written as a prose headnote to an unfinished poem. Through prodigious archival research into hundreds of family letters and diary entries, newly discovered newspaper articles, and marginalia from books that Melville owned, Parker vividly recreates the last four decades of Melville's life, episode after episode unknown to previous biographers. The concluding volume of Herman Melville: A Biography confirms Hershel Parker's position as the world's leading Melville scholar, demonstrating his unrivaled biographical, literary, and historical imagination and providing a rich new portrait of a great-and profoundly American-artist.

目次

  • Contents: Crowned and Blindsided, November-December 1851 "Mad Christmas" 1851 The Kraken Version of Pierre, November-December 1851 Melville Crosses the Rubicon, January 1852 Richard Bentley: The Whale and Pierre, January-May 1852 Fool's Paradise and the Furies Unleashed, June-September 1852 The Isle of the Cross, September 1852-June 1853 The Magazinist: Idealist Turned Would-Be Stoic, July1853 -January 1854 The Shift Away from Herman and Arrowhead, January-March 1854 Tortoises and Israel Potter, 1854 "Benito Cereno," Early 1855 The Confidence Man's Masquerade: Melville as National Satirist, June 1855-January 1856 Foreclosing on Friendship: Confession and Shame, February 1856-October 1856 Liverpool and the Levant, Late 1856-February 1857 Rome to Liverpool, and Home, February-April 1857 "Statues in Rome," May 1857-November 1858 "The South Seas," March 1858-Spring 1859 The Poet and the Last Lecture, "Travel," Summer 1859-Early 1860 An Epic Poet on the Meteor, May 1860-October 1860 The Dream of Florence, A State Funeral, and War, November 1860-December 1861 A Humble Quest for an Aesthetic Credo, January-April 1862 Farewell to Arrowhead and the Overthrow of Jehu, April-December 1862 Displacements, January-June 1863 Wartime Second Honeymoon & Manhattan for Good, Summer-Fall 1863 The War Poet's Scout Toward Aldie, 1864 Two Years of War and Dubious Peace, 1865-1866 Battle-Pieces: Poet, Poems, Reviewers, 1866 Domestic Life with a "Psychological Cerberus," 1867 A Snug Harbor for the Melvilles, Late 1867-1868 The Man Who had Known Hawthorne, 1869 West Street and "Jerusalem," 1870 The Last Mustering of the Clan, and "The Wilderness," 1871 Death, Death, and Flight to a Snug Harbor, 1872 A Family in Disarray
  • & "Mar Saba," 1873 The New Generation and "Bethlehem," 1874-1875 Clarel: Melville's Centennial Epic, 1876 "Old Fogy" and Imaginary Companions, 1877-1880 The Shadow at the Feasts, 1880-1885 Fragments in a Writing-Desk, 1886-1891 In and Out of the House of the Tragic Poet, 1886-1891

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