Herman Melville

This two-volume project constitutes the most comprehensive biography of Melville ever published. Hershel Parker reveals with extraordinary precision the twisting turns and turmoil of Melville's life, from his Manhattan boyhood to his death.

Hershel Parker, H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware, is co-editor with Harrison Hayford of the landmark Norton Critical Edition of Moby-Dick(1967 and 2001) and Associate General Editor of The Writings of Herman Melville. His previous publications include Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons and Reading "Billy Budd." He is also editor of an edition of Melville's Pierre (1995), illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

List of Illustrations

ix

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xix

The Flight of the Patrician Wastrel and His Second Son: 1830

1

(21)

Herman Melvill's World, 1819--1830: Manhattan, Albany, Boston

22

(28)

``The Terrors of Death'': Albany, 1831--1832

50

(16)

The ``Cholera Year'': 1832--1833

66

(18)

In the Shadow of the Young Furrier: Herman as Clerk, 1833--1835

84

(20)

Clerk, Farmer, Teacher, Polemicist: 1836--May 1838

104

(21)

Herman in Lansingburgh: Full-grown and Useless, May 1838--May 1839

125

(18)

Sailor and Schoolteacher: 1839--1840

143

(23)

West to Seek His Fortune: 1840

166

(14)

The First Year of Whaling: 1841

180

(24)

Whaler and Runaway: 1842

204

(15)

Beachcomber and Whaler: 1842--1843

219

(17)

Lahaina and Honolulu: 1843

236

(25)

Ordinary Seaman on the United States: 1843--1844

261

(28)

Home but Not Home: October 1844

289

(27)

The Sailor, the Orator, and the Grand Contested Election: 1844

316

(23)

Catching Up: 1844

339

(15)

The Sailor at the Writing-Desk: 1844--1845

354

(19)

A Manuscript but No Publisher: 1845

373

(19)

A Modern Crusoe: 1846

392

(17)

International Author and the Man of the Family: 1846

409

(22)

The Resurrection of Toby: 1846

431

(18)

Winning Elizabeth Shaw and Winning the Harpers: 1846

449

(27)

Office-Seeker and Reviewer: 1847

476

(22)

Triumphant Author, Triumphant Lover: 1847

498

(27)

Scandal and Marriage: 1847

525

(21)

Newlyweds in New York City: 1847

546

(19)

Mardi as Island-Hopping Symposium: 1847--1848

565

(22)

Dollars Be Damned: ``The Red Year Forty-Eight''

587

(25)

Malcolm and the Fate of Mardi: 1849

612

(24)

Redburn and White-Jacket: Summer 1849

636

(25)

London and a Peek at Continental Life: Fall 1849

661

(27)

The Breaching of Mocha Dick: January 1850

688

(14)

Hiding Out on the Cannibal Island: February--June 1850

702

(27)

Pittsfield and Hawthorne: June--7 August 1850

729

(23)

Hawthorne and His Mosses: 8 August--September 1850

752

(30)

Writing at Arrowhead: October 1850--Mid-January 1851

782

(30)

Damned by Dollars: Mid-January--1 May 1851

812

(27)

The Final Dash at The Whale: May--September 1851

839

(26)

Melville in Triumph: The Whale and the Kraken, September--November 1851

865

(20)

Genealogical Charts

885

(6)

Documentation

891

(22)

Index

913

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