Herman Melville [electronic resource] / John L. Bryant.

"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 Si...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bryant, John, 1949- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, [2020]
Subjects:
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891.
Novelists, American > 19th century > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Online Access:
Wiley Online Library Online Books: 2021 (Wiley Online Library)
Wiley Obooks 2011 to Present: 2021 (Wiley Online Library)
Variant Title:
Herman Melville: A Half Known Life
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • 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.
Partial Contents:
  • A half known life
  • The biography of a half known life.