Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisis Up ...

Includes new discoveries about Melville's life and a new preface reporting the changing attitudes toward him.

Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick' is a monumental work of American literature, considered one of the greatest novels of all time.

A detailed account of Herman Melville's life during the Civil War, as well as study of his war epic, Battle-Pieces.

And always, at the heart of this story, Robinson finds Murray's highly erotic and mystical relationship with Christiana Morgan.

The book grounds the study of Herman Melville's writings to the world that influenced their composition, publication and recognition, making it a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, students and general readers.

The city's development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. "One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century" (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations.

Paper reissue of the 1972 edition.

In Beloved Community, Casey Blake considers these intellectuals as a coherant group and assesses the connection between thier cultural criticisms and their attempts to forge a communitarian alternative to liberal and socialist poitics.

One of the first Melvilleans to advance what has since become known as the “theory of the two Moby-Dicks,” Olson argues that there were two versions of Moby-Dick, and that Melville’s reading King Lear for the first time in between the ...