Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative

by Hershel Parker

Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative is Hershel Parker's history of the writing of Melville biographies, enriched by a lifetime of intimate working partnerships with great Melville scholars of different generations and by the author's experience of successive phases of literary criticism. Throughout this bold book, Hershel Parker champions archival-based biography and the all-but-lost art of embodying such scholarship in literary criticism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810127091
• ISBN13: 9780810127098
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 587 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"