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Herman Melville
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"Herman spent only his first year at No. 6 Pearl St. along Manhattan's Battery. Barely a toddler in the fall of 1820, he moved with his two older siblings, merchant father Allan Melvill, age 38, an...
"Herman spent only his first year at No. 6 Pearl St. along Manhattan's Battery. Barely a toddler in the fall of 1820, he moved with his two older siblings, merchant father Allan Melvill, age 38, and perpetually expectant mother Maria, age 29, to 55 Cortlandt Street, a few blocks north on the West Side"-- Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- John L. Bryant
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, [2020]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
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- ISBNs
- 9781119072706, 1119072700, 1119106001, 9781119072690, 1119072697, 9781119106005, 9781405121903, 9781405121903
- OCLC
- on1152501558
- This resource is a multipart monograph with two volumes.
- A half known life -- The biography of a half known life
- Manhattan and Albany (1819-1832). Last leaves, new leaf -- Commerce and providence -- Home and street -- Awakenings -- The secret of our paternity -- Marriage of New England and New York -- Recuperations -- School boy and reader -- The birth of Ishmael -- Growing up Gansevoort (1832-1836). Patriarch and hero -- Gansevoort and the Indians -- Broken temple -- Jackson and the negro -- Albany and Africa -- Black Gansevoort -- Mourning and arousal -- Summer of plague -- Spoils and debt -- Working boy : steam & temptation -- Moving up -- Sibling coterie (1836). Brother Gansevoort -- Happiness and power -- Sister Helen -- Emancipated school girl -- Sister Augusta -- Dark-eyed darling -- Composing yourself -- Inland identities : farmer, teacher, debater, lover, writer (1836-1839). "Deep inland there I" -- Uncle Thomas -- Schoolmaster -- Debater and cosmopolite -- Lansingburgh : river banks & bankruptcy -- The intimacy of reading -- Occasional writting & reading -- Love is then our duty -- Published writer -- The imperative of travel (1839). On the go off -- Circumambulating Manhattan -- Heading out to sea -- Brotherhood of outcasts -- Secret sympathy -- First voyage (1839). Along the Marge -- His first crew -- Learning the ropes -- No school like a ship for studying human nature -- Irish Sea and Liverpool -- Liverpool and Back (1839-1840). The Liverpool of his father -- Roscoe and the picture of Liverpool -- What Melville saw in Liverpool -- The mment of Liverpool -- Home again : teacher again -- Rent -- Maria's boys -- Out West (1840). On the road -- On the canal -- Up in Michigan -- Chicago and Galena -- Versions of prairie -- The falls of St. Anthony -- Lonely watcher -- Rivers and scars -- The Atlantic (1841). Four weeks' residence in Manhattan -- Mean streets -- New Bedford -- Ready for sea -- Ship and space -- First lowering -- Unimaginable accidents -- Tornadoed Atlantic of my being -- The Pacific (1841-1842). My dear Pacific -- Work and love -- This thing of the Essex -- Forecastle conversation -- Lover of the picturesque -- Versions of picturesque -- The Marquesas (1842). Nuku Hiva -- Jumping ship -- Island masculinities -- Taipi and Typee -- Escaping paradise -- Tahiti, Eimeo, Hawai'i (1842-1843). Good and faithful seaman -- Reluctant mutineer -- Resistance and vulnerability -- Comic consciousness -- Tahiti as is -- Cosmopolitan Polynesia -- Not until Honolulu was I aware -- Colonial consciousness -- In the Navy (1843-1844). Herman Melville O. S. -- Ordinary seamen -- Miracle of art -- Tearless in Lima -- Humiliation and riot -- Theater of war -- Sailor come home (1844-1845). Beloved brother -- Tableaux vivants -- First unfoldings -- Writing Typee (1845-1846). Tinker, alter, erupt -- The language of my companion -- Translating Taipi -- Melville in eruption -- Smuggling verbalist -- Practiced writer (1846). Brothers together -- Broken sword