Umfang:
1 online resource (1383 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781119072690
Inhalt:
Cover -- Volume I -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Island and Isolato -- Water -- Peering, Absorbing, Translating -- Notes -- Part I Manhattan and Albany (1819-1832) -- Chapter 1 Last Leaves, New Leaf -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Commerce and Providence -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Home and Street -- Parenting -- Greenwich Village Retreat -- Theater and School -- Theater and Race -- Theater of the Street -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Awakenings -- Siblings -- Middle Child -- "I thought tht I coul‐d not write well enough" -- Phantom of Life -- Notes -- Chapter 5 The Secret of Our Paternity -- Drowning Man -- Notes -- Chapter 6 A Marriage of New England and New York -- Allan and Maria -- Note -- Chapter 7 Recuperations -- Bright Scholar -- Brothers and Uncles -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Schoolboy and Reader -- Seeds of the Poet -- Notes -- Chapter 9 The Birth of Ishmael -- Notes -- Part II Growing Up Gansevoort (1832-1836) -- Chapter 10 Patriarch and Hero -- General Gansevoort -- Upstate Brothers, Uncles, and Cousins -- The Hero of Fort Stanwix -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Gansevoort and the Indians -- The Summer of Indian Removal -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Broken Temple -- Grandfather, Brant, and Pierre -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Jackson and the Negro -- Jackson's 1832 -- Notes -- Chapter 14 Albany and Africa -- "From Hudson's stream to Niger's wave" -- Notes -- Chapter 15 Black Gansevoort -- Our Folks -- Racial Chiaroscuro -- Notes -- Chapter 16 Mourning and Arousal -- "A scar that the air of Paradise might not erase" -- Melville Nocturne -- Notes -- Chapter 17 Summer of Plague -- "In time of the cholera" -- Notes -- Chapter 18 Spoils and Debt -- Notes -- Chapter 19 Working Boy: Steam and Temptation -- One Night in a Bar-Room -- Notes -- Chapter 20 Moving Up -- Uncle Peter -- Independence and Readiness -- Notes -- Part III Sibling Coterie (1836).
Anmerkung:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
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Volume I mit Zustaztitel: Eternal ifs: Infant. Boy and Man (1819-1840) ; Volume II mit Zusatztitel: Melville at Sea (1840-1846)
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781405121903
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bryant, John, 1949 - Herman Melville Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2021 ISBN 9781405121903
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Amerikanistik
Schlagwort(e):
Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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