Melville biography
Subtitle: an inside narrative
By: Hershel Parker
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 587
ISBN-13: 9780810127098
Subjects: Criticism; American Novelists; Biography as a literary form; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Biographer and biography; title: Melville and the footsteps theory of biography --; title: Textual editor as biographer in training: the Norton Moby-Dick and the Northwestern-Newberry writings of Herman Melville --; title: Entangled by Pierre: doing biography away from the archives --; title: Creating the new Melville log and writing the biography --; title: Facts that do not speak for themselves --; title: Desiderata and discoveries in traditional archives and databases -- -- Part II. Critics vs. biographical scholarship; title: Agenda-driven reviewers: Melville in the insular New York newspapers and magazines vs. global loomings from "ragtag bloggers" and litblogs --; title: Little Jack Horners and archivophobics --; title: Biographical scholars and recidivist critics --; title: Presentism in Melville biography --; title: The late twentieth-century mini-Melville: New York intellectuals without information --; title: The early twenty-first-century mini-Melville: New York intellectuals without information -- -- Part III. The biographer in the workshop: demonstrations and challenges; title: Melville as the "modern Boccaccio": the fascinations of Fayaway --; title: Melville's courtship of Elizabeth Shaw --; title: Melville's short run of good luck (1845-1849): fool's paradise without international copyright --; title: Melville without international copyright (1850-1854): a Harper "sacrifice" for the "public good" --; title: Melville and Hawthorne's dinner at the Hotel in Lenox --; title: Why Melville took Hawthorne to the holy land: biography enhanced by databases and an amateur blogger --; title: Melville as a Titan of literature among high-minded British admirers: the Kory-Kory and Queequeg component --; title: Damned by dollars: Moby-Dick and the price of genius.