Melville a biography laurie robertson lorantffy

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Melville a biography laurie robertson lorantffy: Melville, Andrew. 92 Msgsma

Melville : a biography Bookreader Item Preview. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. With energetic prose, Robertson-Lorant immerses the reader in the political and social climate of the often turbulent world of Herman Melville, from his childhood to his adventurous seafaring days, to his intermittently successful but never fulfilling career as a writer.

With breathtaking scope and an unerring eye for psychological nuance, Robertson-Lorant pinpoints the forces that would shape the man: the women and children in Melville's life, his complicated and enigmatic relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne, the psychosexual tensions that informed his art, his struggles against debt, his disappointment about failing to win a popular audience for his more serious work, and the alcoholism and violence that plagued his family.

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Herman Melville's goal as an author was to become one of the "thought-divers that have been diving and coming up again with bloodshot eyes since the world began. The result was a body of work that ranged from popular fiction Typee to the dreadful gothic romance Pierre to the classic Moby Dick.

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Working with family letters found inLaurie Robertson-Lorant provides a compelling, multifaceted portrait of one of America's most intriguing literary figures. Laurie Robertson-Lorant teaches at St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts. Convert currency. Add to basket. Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings.

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