Melville in love : the secret life of Herman Melville and the muse of Moby-Dick / Michael Shelden.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062418982
- ISBN: 006241898X
- Physical Description: 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271). |
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Subject: | Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Morewood, Sarah Huyler, 1823-1863. Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick > Sources. Novelists, American > 19th century > Biography. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Plainfield-Guilford Twp PL - Plainfield | 921 Melville (Text) | 31208912455914 | non-fiction | Available | - |
Washington Carnegie PL - Washington | B MELVILLE (Text) | 21401000123716 | Adult Hardback Shelves | Available | - |
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A Pulitzer finalist in Biography, drawing on new archival research, tells the story of Melvilleâs passionate, obsessive and clandestine affair with a married woman with whom he formed an illicit and enduring romantic and intellectual bond that gave him the courage and wherewithal to writeMoby Dick . 25,000 first printing. - HARPERCOLL
A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick, written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Biography and based on fresh archival research, which reveals that the anarchic spirit animating Melville’s canonical work was inspired by his great love affair with a shockingly unconventional married woman.
Herman Melville’s epic novel, Moby-Dick, was a spectacular failure when it was published in 1851, effectively ending its author’s rise to literary fame. Because he was neglected by academics for so long, and because he made little effort to preserve his legacy, we know very little about Melville, and even less about what he called his “wicked book.” Scholars still puzzle over what drove Melville to invent Captain Ahab's mad pursuit of the great white whale.
In Melville in Love Pulitzer Prize-finalist Michael Shelden sheds light on this literary mystery to tell a story of Melville’s passionate, obsessive, and clandestine affair with a married woman named Sarah Morewood, whose libertine impulses encouraged and sustained Melville’s own. In his research, Shelden discovered unexplored documents suggesting that, in their shared resistance to the “iron rule” of social conformity, Sarah and Melville had forged an illicit and enduring romantic and intellectual bond. Emboldened by the thrill of courting Sarah in secret, the pleasure of falling in love, and the excitement of spending time with literary luminaries—like Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Nathaniel Hawthorne—Melville found the courage to take the leap from light works of adventure to the hugely brilliant, utterly subversive Moby-Dick.
Filled with the rich detail and immense drama of Melville’s secret life, Melville in Love tells the gripping story of how one of our greatest novelists found his muse.
- HARPERCOLL
A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick, written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Biography and based on fresh archival research, which reveals that the anarchic spirit animating Melville's canonical work was inspired by his great love affair with a shockingly unconventional married woman.
Herman Melville's epic novel, Moby-Dick, was a spectacular failure when it was published in 1851, effectively ending its author's rise to literary fame. Because he was neglected by academics for so long, and because he made little effort to preserve his legacy, we know very little about Melville, and even less about what he called his 'wicked book.' Scholars still puzzle over what drove Melville to invent Captain Ahab's mad pursuit of the great white whale.
In Melville in Love Pulitzer Prize-finalist Michael Shelden sheds light on this literary mystery to tell a story of Melville's passionate, obsessive, and clandestine affair with a married woman named Sarah Morewood, whose libertine impulses encouraged and sustained Melville's own. In his research, Shelden discovered unexplored documents suggesting that, in their shared resistance to the 'iron rule' of social conformity, Sarah and Melville had forged an illicit and enduring romantic and intellectual bond. Emboldened by the thrill of courting Sarah in secret, the pleasure of falling in love, and the excitement of spending time with literary luminaries'like Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Nathaniel Hawthorne'melville found the courage to take the leap from light works of adventure to the hugely brilliant, utterly subversive Moby-Dick.
Filled with the rich detail and immense drama of Melville's secret life, Melville in Love tells the gripping story of how one of our greatest novelists found his muse.