num_pages: 255
description: Literary criticism. Published 1944 by Harvard University Press. 1. Introductory 2. “Typee” 3. “Mardi” 4. “Redburn” - “White Jacket” 5. “Moby Dick” 6. “Pierre” 7. After “Pierre” 8. “Clarel” 9. “Billy Budd”. In a review for the New York Times (quoted on the dust jacket’s back flap), Lewis Mumford wrote, “What Mr. Sedgwick’s study finally establishes is the soundness of Melville’s ultimate vision of life. On the plane from which this book is written I know of no other study that achieves such unified excellence.”
language: English
title: Herman Melville: The Tragedy of Mind
titlecomplete: Herman Melville: The Tragedy of Mind
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Russell&Russell Pub