Melville in His Own Time : A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollection, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates /

Work of Jay Leyda, Merton M. Sealts, and Hershel Parker. Combining recently discovered evidence with new transcriptions of long-known but rarely consulted testimony, this collection offers the most up-to-date and correct record of commentary on Melville by individuals who knew him.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Olsen-Smith, Steven (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Friends and associates.
Novelists, American.
Friendship.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Romanciers americains > 19e siecle > Biographies.
Novelists, American > 19th century > Biography.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword by John Bryant
  • Introduction
  • Chronology
  • [Selected Remarks by Melvill(e) Family Members, 1819-1840]
  • [Charles Van Loon, Herman Melville, and Unidentified Contributors], [Remarks in the Albany Microscope, with Melville's Replies, 1837 and 1838]
  • [William J. Moses], "Young Men's Association" (1858)
  • Evert A. Duyckinck, [Epistolary and Diary Remarks, 1846-1856]
  • Evert A. Duyckinck, [Cornelius Mathews], James T. Fields, and Henry Dwight Sedgwick II, [Berkshire Social Events, August 1850]
  • Evert A. Duyckinck and [Sarah Huyler Morewood], [Berkshire Social Events, August 1851]
  • Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, [Epistolary Remarks, 1850-1852]
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, [Journal Remarks, 1851 and 1856]
  • "Maherbal" [Matthew Henry Buckham], [A Private Dinner with Hawthorne, 1852]
  • From The Men of the Time (1852)
  • Maunsell B. Field, From Memories of Many Men and of Some Women (1874)
  • Richard Lathers, From Reminiscences of Richard Lathers (1907)
  • Evert A. Duyckinck and George L. Duyckinck, From Cyclopaedia of American Literature (1855)
  • [Thomas Powell], "Herman Melville, Romancist" (1856)
  • Titus Munson Coan, [Epistolary and Diary Remarks, 1859, 1891, and 1919] and "Herman Melville" (1891)
  • John Thomas Gulick, [Journal Remarks, 27 April 1859]
  • Charles Hemstreet, From Literary New York: Its Landmarks and Associations (1903)
  • Samuel S. Shaw, Elizabeth Melville, and Josephine MacC Shaw, [Two Letters and Later Testimony concerning Marital Conditions in the Melville Household, 1867 and ca. 1920]
  • John C. Hoadley, [Epistolary Remarks, 1873]
  • Samuel Arthur Jones, [Epistolary Remarks, 1900]
  • Richard Henry Stoddard, From Recollections Personal & Literary (1903)
  • [Chester A. Arthur and George Alfred Townsend], "A Novelist in the Custom House" (1879).
  • Julian Hawthorne, [Essays and Excerpts on Melville, 1901-1927]
  • Theodore F. Wolfe, From Literary Shrines (1895)
  • Oscar Wegelin, "Herman Melville As I Recall Him" (1935)
  • Eleanor Melville Metcalf, [Childhood Recollection, 1921]
  • Frances Thomas Osborne, [Childhood Recollection, 1965]
  • Arthur Stedman, "Herman Melville's Funeral" (1891) and From "Introduction to the 1892 Edition [of Typee]"
  • [J.E.A. Smith], From "Herman Melville. A Great Pittsfield Author" (1891, 1892)
  • Oliver. G. Hillard, "The Late Hiram Melville: A Tribute to His Memory from One Who Knew Him" (1891)
  • Peter Toft, "In Praise of Herman Melville" (1900)
  • Permissions
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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