{"product_id":"herman-melville-2-volume-set-isbn-9781405121903","title":"Herman Melville, 2 Volume Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive exploration of Melville's formative years, providing a new biographical foundation for today's generations of Melville readers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHerman Melville: A Half Known Life, Volumes 1 and 2, \u003c\/i\u003efollows Herman Melville's life from early childhood to his astonishing emergence as a bestselling novelist with the publication of \u003ci\u003eTypee\u003c\/i\u003e in 1846. These volumes comprise the first half of a comprehensive biography on Melville, grounded in archival research, new scholarship, and incisive critical readings. Author John Bryant, a distinguished Melville scholar, editor, critic, and educator, traces the events and experiences that shaped the many-stranded consciousness of one of literature’s greatest writers. This in-depth and innovative biography covers Melville's family history and literary friendships, his father-longing, god-hunger, and search for the hidden nature of Being, the genesis of his liberal politics, his empathy for African Americans, Native Americans, Polynesians, South Americans, and immigrants.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOriginal perspectives on Melville’s earliest identities—orphaned son, sibling, farmer, teacher, debater, lover, actor, sailor—provide the context for Melville’s evolution as a writer. The biography presents new information regarding Melville's reading, his early orations and acting experience, his life at sea and on the road, and the unsettling death of his older, rival brother from mercury poisoning. It provides insights on experiences such as Melville's trauma at the loss of his father, his learning to write amidst a coterie siblings, his struggles to find work during economic depression, his journey West, his life in whaling and in the navy, and his vagabondage in the South Pacific during the moment of American and European imperial incursions. A significant addition to Melville scholarship, this important biographical work:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the nature and development of Melville's creative consciousness, through the lens of his revisions in manuscript and print\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAssesses Melville's sexual growth and exploration of the spectrum of his masculinities\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHighlights Melville's relevance in contemporary democratic society\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses Melville's blending of dark humor and tragedy in his unique version of the picturesque\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines the 'replaying' of Melville's life traumas throughout his entire works, from \u003ci\u003eTypee\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOmoo, Redburn, White-Jacket\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePierre\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIsrael Potter\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Confidence-Man\u003c\/i\u003e to his shorter works, including \"Bartleby,\" his epic \u003ci\u003eClarel\u003c\/i\u003e, his poetry, and his last novella \u003ci\u003eBilly Budd\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers such cultural and historical events as the American revolution of his grandparents, the whaling industry, New York slavery, street life and theater in Manhattan, the transatlantic slave trade, the Jacksonian economy, Indian removal, Pacific colonialism, and westward expansion\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in an engaging style for scholars and general readers alike, \u003ci\u003eHerman Melville: A Half Known Life, Volumes 1 and 2\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable new source of information and insights for those interested in Melville, 19\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-century and modern literature and culture, and readers of general American history and literary culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolume 1 Eternal Ifs: Infant, Boy, and Man (1819-1840) 0\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction  5347\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Manhattan and Albany (1819-1832) 0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 1 Last Leaves, New Leaf 5085\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 2 Commerce and Providence 3248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 3 Home and Street 6921\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 4 Awakenings 6487\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 5 The Secret of Our Paternity 7042\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 6 Marriage of New England and New York 2647\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 7 Recuperations 2588\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 8 School Boy and Reader 4694\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 9 The Birth of Ishmael 3166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Growing up Gansevoort (1832-1836) 0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 10 Patriarch and Hero 4153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 11 Gansevoort and the Indians  3373\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 12 Broken Temple  4576\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 13 Jackson and the Negro  2706\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 14 Albany and Africa 4625\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 15 Black Gansevoort 3092\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 16 Mourning and Arousal 4922\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 17 Summer of Plague 5104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 18 Spoils and Debt 1811\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 19 Working Boy: Steam \u0026amp; Temptation 4525\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 20 Moving Up 3433\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Sibling Coterie (1836) 0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 21 Brother Gansevoort 6562\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 22 Happiness and Power 4568\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 23 Sister Helen 4116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e*Chap 24 Emancipated School Girl 7423\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 25 Sister Augusta 6307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 26 Dark-eyed Darling 5368\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 27 Composing Yourself 4830\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Inland Identities:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFarmer, Teacher, Debater, Lover, Writer (1836-1839) 0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e*Chap 28 “Deep Inland There I” 4327\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 29 Uncle Thomas 5732\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 30 Schoolmaster 6065\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 31 Debater and Cosmopolite 8335\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 32 Lansingburgh: River Banks \u0026amp; Bankruptcy 2911\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 33 The Intimacy of Reading 6206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 34 Occasional Writting \u0026amp; Reading 5813\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e*Chap 35 Love is then our Duty 6862\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 36 Published Writer 4784\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Imperative of Travel (1839) 0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 37 On the Go Off 4607\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 38 Circumambulating Manhattan 3617\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 39 Heading Out to Sea 2892\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 40 Brotherhood of Outcasts 4860\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 41 Secret Sympathy 3448\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 First Voyage (1839) 0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 42 Along the Marge 1941\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 43 His First Crew 3472\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 44 Learning the Ropes 4414\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 45 No School Like a Ship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003efor Studying Human Nature 4512\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 46 Irish Sea and Liverpool 5461\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Liverpool and Back (1839-1840) 0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 47 The Liverpool of His Father 5458\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 48 Roscoe and the Picture of Liverpool 6584\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 49 What Melville Saw in Liverpool 4035\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 50 The Moment of Liverpool 4460\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 51 Home Again: Teacher Again 5005\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 52 Rent 5153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 53 Maria’s Boys 7029\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVolume 2 Melville at Sea  (1840-1846)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Out West (1840) 0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 54 On the Road 3253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 55 On the Canal 3653\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 56 Up in Michigan 2303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 57 Chicago and Galena 2670\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 58 Versions of Prairie 2731\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 59 The Falls of St. Anthony 1464\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 60 Lonely Watcher 3168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 61 Rivers and Scars 6134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Atlantic (1841) 0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 62 Four Weeks’ Residence in Manhattan 4139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 63 Mean Streets 5723\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 64 New Bedford 4669\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 65 Ready for Sea 3842\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 66 Ship and Space 6203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 67 First Lowering 6155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 68 Unimaginable Accidents 4642\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 69 Tornadoed Atlantic of My Being 5235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Pacific (1841-1842) 0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 70 My Dear Pacific 4568\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 71 Work and Love 5237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 72 This Thing of the Essex 6500\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 73 Forecastle Conversation 6267\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 74 Lover of the Picturesque  3791\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 75 Versions of Picturesque  2772\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Marquesas (1842) 0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 76 Nuku Hiva 5488\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 77 Jumping Ship 6280\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 78 Island Masculinities 5918\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 79 Taipi and Typee  6187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 80 Escaping Paradise 6413\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Tahiti, Eimeo, Hawai'i  (1842-1843) 0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 81 Good and Faithful Seaman 4839\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 82 Reluctant Mutineer 4490\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 83 Resistance and Vulnerability 4323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 84 Comic Consciousness 5039\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 85 Tahiti As Is 5916\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 86 Cosmopolitan Polynesia 4629\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 87 Not Until Honolulu Was I Aware 5633\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 88 Colonial Consciousness 4412\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 In the Navy (1843-1844) 0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 89 Herman Melville O. S. 6074\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 90 Ordinary Seamen 5030\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 91 Miracle of Art 4840\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 92 Tearless in Lima 3259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 93 Humiliation and Riot 5137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 94 Theater of War 4752\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Sailor Come Home (1844-1845) 0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 95 Beloved Brother 8027\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 96 Tableaux Vivants 7189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 97 First Unfoldings 5811\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Writing Typee (1845-1846) 0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 98 Tinker, Alter, Erupt 4982\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 99 The Language of My Companion 6225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 100 Translating Taipi 5358\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 101 Melville in Eruption 5192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 102 Smuggling Verbalist 4450\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Practiced Writer (1846) 0\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 103 Brothers Together 7857\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChap 104 Broken Sword 4900\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTotal  253761\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003evol. 1  256702\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003evol. 2  253761\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOHN BRYANT\u003c\/b\u003e is a leading Melville scholar and Professor Emeritus of English at Hofstra University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Melville Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMelville and Repose, The Fluid Text\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMelville Unfolding\u003c\/i\u003e, and over 70 articles on Melville and related nineteenth-century writers. He is the founder of \u003ci\u003eLeviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, and of the \u003ci\u003eMelville Electronic Library.\u003c\/i\u003e He received the Distinguished Editor Award from Council of Editors of Learned Journals in 2015.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA COMPREHENSIVE EXPLORATION OF MELVILLE'S FORMATIVE YEARS, PROVIDING A NEW BIOGRAPHICAL FOUNDATION FOR TODAY'S GENERATION OF MELVILLE READERS.\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHerman Melville: A Half Known Life (Volumes 1 and 2)\u003c\/i\u003e follows the unfoldings of an unpromising child, wayward adolescent, and uncommon sailor who became one of the world's greatest writers. These volumes comprise a comprehensive biography of the first half of Melville's life grounded in archival research, new scholarship, and incisive critical readings. Culminating with Melville's astonishing arrival on the literary scene with the publication of \u003ci\u003eTypee\u003c\/i\u003e in 1846, they cover Melville's family history and literary friendships; his father-longing, god-hunger, and search for the roots of Being; the genesis of his liberal politics, and his life-long evolving empathy for African Americans, Native Americans, Polynesians, South Americans, immigrants, and the dispossessed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe biography presents new information regarding Melville's early reading, his schooling, debating, and acting experience, his learning to write alongside a coterie of gifted siblings, his life at sea and on the road, and the unsettling death of his older, rival brother from mercury poisoning. A major addition to Melville scholarship, this important biographical study: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the intimate nature of Melville's creative consciousness, through the lens of his revisions in manuscript and print\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAssesses the range of his masculinities and his love for women and men\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses Melville's blending of dark humor and tragedy in his unique version of the picturesque\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines the \"replaying\" of Melville's life traumas throughout his entire works, from Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man, and his epic Clarel to his shorter works, including \"Bartleby,\" his poetry, and his last novella Billy Budd\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePlaces Melville's life and works in the context of cultural and historical events from the American revolution of his grandparents to the traumas of the Jacksonian era, including cholera pandemic, whaling, slavery, and economic depression, New York street life and theater, Indian removal, and westward expansion; poverty in Liverpool, the Brazilian transatlantic slave trade, revolution in Peru, and Pacific imperialism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUnderscores Melville's relevance for contemporary democratic society\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten in an engaging style for scholars and general readers alike, \u003ci\u003eHerman Melville: A Half Known Life, Volumes 1 and 2\u003c\/i\u003e integrates Melville's life and work in the context of early to modern American and literary culture. It is indispensable for readers seeking new insights into Melville biography and new ways of reading Melville.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989358592229,"sku":"NP9781405121903","price":372.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405121903.jpg?v=1761783803","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/herman-melville-2-volume-set-isbn-9781405121903","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}