Title: Exiled Royalties
First published: December 9, 2005
Description: "Exiled Royalties is a literary/biographical study of the course of Melville's career from his experience in Polynesia through his retirement from the New York Custom House and his composition of three late volumes of poetry and Billy Budd, Sailor. Conceived separately but narratively and thematically intertwined, the ten essays in the book are rooted in a belief that "Melville's work," as Charles Olson said, "must be left in his own 'life,'" which for Milder means primarily his spiritual, psychological, and vocational life."--BOOK JACKET
Subjects: American Novelists, Democracy in literature, Literature and society, Novelists, American, Political and social views, Biography, History, Melville, herman, 1819-1891, Authors, american, United states, history, 19th century, Authors, biography
Places: United States
People: Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PS2386 .M487 2006