Strike through the mask : Herman Melville and the scene of writing
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Strike through the mask : Herman Melville and the scene of writing
(Johns Hopkins paperbacks)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998, c1996
- : pbk
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Johns Hopkins Paperbacks edition, 1998"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-175) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume argues that Melville as a writer was plagued by writing anxiety, emotional problems, and painful physical ailments. His fiction was produced only with great anguish, and in the process appears to have inflicted anguish on those around him. The text examines the impact on his writing of his struggles with writer's block and depression, as well as his complex relationship with women, particularly his wife and sisters, on whom he depended for copying and correcting his manuscripts.
by "Nielsen BookData"