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Author
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xix, 587 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative is Hershel Parker's history of the writing of Melville biographies, enriched by his intimate working relationships with great Melvilleans, dead and living. The first part is a mesmerizing autobiographical account of what went into creating his award-winning two-volume life of Herman Melville. Next, Parker traces six decades the persistent war New Critics have waged against biographical scholarship on Melville....
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