A Herman Melville Encyclopedia

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Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995 - 536 pages
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Herman Melville is one of the most challenging authors of American literature. Known primarily as the author of Moby-Dick, he wrote several other novels, short stories, and poems. With the rise of interest in Melville in the 20th century, critical and biographical studies of Melville continue to be published at an ever-increasing rate. This encyclopedia is a comprehensive guide to Melville's rich and complex literary career.

The volume includes several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for all of Melville's works and characters, and for his family members, friends, and acquaintances. Entries on the most important topics include bibliographies. The encyclopedia is more factual than critical, but scholarship from 1990 and beyond is emphasized throughout. The book also gives special attention to the 19th-century women who influenced Melville, for these women have often been overlooked. A chronology overviews the principal events in Melville's life, and a selected bibliography lists major studies.

 

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The Encyclopedia
1
General Bibliography
505
Index
509
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Page 187 - Now, I do not say that Nathaniel of Salem is a greater than William of Avon, or as great. But the difference between the two men is by no means immeasurable.
Page 186 - I had some vague idea while writing it, that the whole book was susceptible of an allegoric construction, & also that parts of it were — but the speciality of many of the particular subordinate allegories, were first revealed to me, after reading Mr Hawthorne's letter, which, without citing any particular examples, yet intimated the part-&-parcel allegoricalness of the whole.
Page 205 - History of New York, from the beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.
Page 492 - But no reputation that is gratifying to me, can possibly be achieved by either of these books. They are two jobs, which I have done for money — being forced to it, as other men are to sawing wood.
Page 108 - Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Page 355 - For ye two, my most undiluted prayer is now, that from your here unseen and frozen chairs ye may never stir alive ; — the fool of Truth, the fool of Virtue, the fool of Fate...
Page 492 - Being books, then, written in this way, my only desire for their "success" (as it is called) springs from my pocket, & not from my heart. So far as I am individually concerned, & independent of my pocket, it is my earnest desire to write those sort of books which are said to "fail."— pardon this egotism.
Page 71 - DEDICATED TO JACK CHASE ENGLISHMAN Wherever that great heart may now be Here on Earth or harbored in Paradise Captain of the maintop in the year 1843 in the US Frigate United States...

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À propos de l'auteur (1995)

ROBERT L. GALE is Professor Emeritus of American Literature at the University of Pittsburgh./e His other books include "A Henry James Encyclopedia" (1989), "A Nathaniel Hawthorne Encyclopedia" (1991), "The Gay Nineties in America: A Cultural Dictionary of the 1890s" (1992), and "A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1850s in America" (1993), all published by Greenwood Press.

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