Herman Melville: A Half Known Life

ISBN-13: 9781405121903 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 1392 str.

John Bryant

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Volume 1 Eternal Ifs: Infant, Boy, and Man (1819-1840) 0Introduction 53471 Manhattan and Albany (1819-1832) 0Chap 1 Last Leaves, New Leaf 5085Chap 2 Commerce and Providence 3248Chap 3 Home and Street 6921Chap 4 Awakenings 6487Chap 5 The Secret of Our Paternity 7042Chap 6 Marriage of New England and New York 2647Chap 7 Recuperations 2588Chap 8 School Boy and Reader 4694Chap 9 The Birth of Ishmael 31662 Growing up Gansevoort (1832-1836) 0Chap 10 Patriarch and Hero 4153Chap 11 Gansevoort and the Indians 3373Chap 12 Broken Temple 4576Chap 13 Jackson and the Negro 2706Chap 14 Albany and Africa 4625Chap 15 Black Gansevoort 3092Chap 16 Mourning and Arousal 4922Chap 17 Summer of Plague 5104Chap 18 Spoils and Debt 1811Chap 19 Working Boy: Steam & Temptation 4525Chap 20 Moving Up 34333 Sibling Coterie (1836) 0Chap 21 Brother Gansevoort 6562Chap 22 Happiness and Power 4568Chap 23 Sister Helen 4116*Chap 24 Emancipated School Girl 7423Chap 25 Sister Augusta 6307Chap 26 Dark-eyed Darling 5368Chap 27 Composing Yourself 48304 Inland Identities:Farmer, Teacher, Debater, Lover, Writer (1836-1839) 0*Chap 28 "Deep Inland There I" 4327Chap 29 Uncle Thomas 5732Chap 30 Schoolmaster 6065Chap 31 Debater and Cosmopolite 8335Chap 32 Lansingburgh: River Banks & Bankruptcy 2911Chap 33 The Intimacy of Reading 6206Chap 34 Occasional Writting & Reading 5813*Chap 35 Love is then our Duty 6862Chap 36 Published Writer 47845 The Imperative of Travel (1839) 0Chap 37 On the Go Off 4607Chap 38 Circumambulating Manhattan 3617Chap 39 Heading Out to Sea 2892Chap 40 Brotherhood of Outcasts 4860Chap 41 Secret Sympathy 34486 First Voyage (1839) 0Chap 42 Along the Marge 1941Chap 43 His First Crew 3472Chap 44 Learning the Ropes 4414Chap 45 No School Like a Shipfor Studying Human Nature 4512Chap 46 Irish Sea and Liverpool 54617 Liverpool and Back (1839-1840) 0Chap 47 The Liverpool of His Father 5458Chap 48 Roscoe and the Picture of Liverpool 6584Chap 49 What Melville Saw in Liverpool 4035Chap 50 The Moment of Liverpool 4460Chap 51 Home Again: Teacher Again 5005Chap 52 Rent 5153Chap 53 Maria's Boys 7029Volume 2 Melville at Sea (1840-1846)8 Out West (1840) 0Chap 54 On the Road 3253Chap 55 On the Canal 3653Chap 56 Up in Michigan 2303Chap 57 Chicago and Galena 2670Chap 58 Versions of Prairie 2731Chap 59 The Falls of St. Anthony 1464Chap 60 Lonely Watcher 3168Chap 61 Rivers and Scars 61349 The Atlantic (1841) 0Chap 62 Four Weeks' Residence in Manhattan 4139Chap 63 Mean Streets 5723Chap 64 New Bedford 4669Chap 65 Ready for Sea 3842Chap 66 Ship and Space 6203Chap 67 First Lowering 6155Chap 68 Unimaginable Accidents 4642Chap 69 Tornadoed Atlantic of My Being 523510 The Pacific (1841-1842) 0Chap 70 My Dear Pacific 4568Chap 71 Work and Love 5237Chap 72 This Thing of the Essex 6500Chap 73 Forecastle Conversation 6267Chap 74 Lover of the Picturesque 3791Chap 75 Versions of Picturesque 277211 The Marquesas (1842) 0Chap 76 Nuku Hiva 5488Chap 77 Jumping Ship 6280Chap 78 Island Masculinities 5918Chap 79 Taipi and Typee 6187Chap 80 Escaping Paradise 641312 Tahiti, Eimeo, Hawai'i (1842-1843) 0Chap 81 Good and Faithful Seaman 4839Chap 82 Reluctant Mutineer 4490Chap 83 Resistance and Vulnerability 4323Chap 84 Comic Consciousness 5039Chap 85 Tahiti As Is 5916Chap 86 Cosmopolitan Polynesia 4629Chap 87 Not Until Honolulu Was I Aware 5633Chap 88 Colonial Consciousness 441213 In the Navy (1843-1844) 0Chap 89 Herman Melville O. S. 6074Chap 90 Ordinary Seamen 5030Chap 91 Miracle of Art 4840Chap 92 Tearless in Lima 3259Chap 93 Humiliation and Riot 5137Chap 94 Theater of War 475214 Sailor Come Home (1844-1845) 0Chap 95 Beloved Brother 8027Chap 96 Tableaux Vivants 7189Chap 97 First Unfoldings 581115 Writing Typee (1845-1846) 0Chap 98 Tinker, Alter, Erupt 4982Chap 99 The Language of My Companion 6225Chap 100 Translating Taipi 5358Chap 101 Melville in Eruption 5192Chap 102 Smuggling Verbalist 445016 Practiced Writer (1846) 0Chap 103 Brothers Together 7857Chap 104 Broken Sword 4900Total 253761vol. 1 256702vol. 2 253761

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JOHN BRYANT is a leading Melville scholar and Professor Emeritus of English at Hofstra University. He is the author of A Companion to Melville Studies, Melville and Repose, The Fluid Text, Melville Unfolding, and over 70 articles on Melville and related nineteenth-century writers. He is the founder of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, and of the Melville Electronic Library. He received the Distinguished Editor Award from Council of Editors of Learned Journals in 2015.