The Private Melville by Philip Young
This volume is a study of the connections between Herman Melville's family and his fictions, between his secrets and their displaced expressions. Secrets Melville was careful never to reveal are unmasked by this text.“The Private Melville is a delight to readWise, learned, witty, and thoughtful, it moves very smoothly even when it is covering tangled biographical and scholarly ground. In fact, it doesn’t read like a scholarly book at all, even though it is based on an extremely close and detailed and almost loving reading of sources, interpretations, and archival alluvia.”
—Giles Gunn, University of California, Santa Barbara
“The Private Melville is personal, even private (as the topic mandates), and idiosyncratic; it is opinionated and provocative. It contains no trace of fashionable jargon: where are the Poetics of Privacy? Instead, it proceeds from manuscript evidence and from texts of literary works. Young addresses a broad audience that will be eager to follow the seemingly random, indirect probings of a fine intellect in intense pursuit of disparate phases of Melvillean experience.”
—Hershel Parker, University of Delaware
Philip Young was Evan Pugh Professor of American Literature Emeritus at the Pennsylvania State University and author and editor of many books, most notably Ernest Hemingway (1952) and Ernest Hemingway: A Reconsideration (Penn State, 1966).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780271008578 |
| ISBN 10 | 0271008571 |
| Title | The Private Melville |
| Author | Philip Young |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Year published | 1993-02-26 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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