Herman Melville
Subtitle: A Biography (Volume 2, 1851-1891)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: August 15, 2005
Place of publication: Baltimore, MD
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1056
ISBN-13: 9780801881862
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Biography / Autobiography; English; USA; American - General; Literary; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Literature - Classics / Criticism
Table of contents: title: Crowned and blindsided: November; title: December 1851; title: "Mad Christmas": December 1851; title: The kraken version of Pierre: November; title: December 1851; title: Melville crosses the Rubicon: January 1852; title: Riichard Bentley: The whale and Pierre, January; title: May 1852; title: Fool's paradise and the furies unleashed: June; title: September 1852; title: The isle of the cross: September 1852; title: June 1853; title: The magazinist: idealist turned would-be stoic, July 1853; title: January 1854; title: The shift away from Herman and Arrowhead: January; title: March 1854; title: Tortoises and Israel Potter: 1854; title: "Benito cereno": early 1855; title: The confidence man's masquerade: Melville as national satirist, June 1855; title: January 1856; title: Foreclosing on friendship: confession and shame, February; title: October 1856; title: Liverpool and the levant: late 1856; title: February 1857; title: Rome to Liverpool, and home: February; title: April 1857; title: "Statues in Rome": May 1857; title: February 1858; title: "The South Seas": March 1858; title: Spring 1859; title: The poet and the last lecture, "Travel": summer 1859; title: early 1960; title: An epic poet on the Metoer: May; title: October 1860; title: The dream of Florence, a state funeral, and war: November 1860; title: December 1861; title: A humble quest for an aesthetic credo: January; title: April 1862; title: Farewell to Arrowhead and the overthrow of Jehu: April; title: December 1862; title: Displacements: January; title: June 1863; title: Wartime second honeymoon and Manhattan: summer; title: fall 1863; title: The war poet's scout toward Aldie: 1864; title: Two years; title: of war and dubious peace: 1865-1866; title: Battle-pieces: poet, poems, reviewers, 1866; title: The deputy inspector amid domestic maelstroms: 1867; title: A snug harbor for the Melvilles: late 1867-1868; title: The man who had known Hawthorne: 1869; title: Wall Street, and "Jerusalem": 1870; title: The last mustering of the clan and "The wilderness": 1871; title: Death, Death, and flight to a snug harbor: 1872; title: A family in disarray, and "Mar Saba": 1873; title: The new generation, and "Bethlehem": 1874-1875; title: Clarel: Melville's centennial epic, 1876; title: "Old fogy" and imaginary companions: 1877-1879; title: The shadow at the feasts: 1880-1885; title: Fragments in a writing desk: 1886-1891; title: In and out of the house of the tragic poet: 1886-1891