The Twisted Mind: Madness in Herman Melville's Fiction

by Paul McCarthy

In New York City in the 1820s, Allan and Maria Melvill had hopes of the good life: a happy family, a fine home with servants and a carriage, a fashionable neighborhood, excellent schools, and other marks of social and financial success.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877452849
• ISBN13: 9780877452843
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 194 Pages