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Dillingham, William B:Melville and His Circle: The Last Years - encadernado, livro de bolso
1996, ISBN: 9780820318561
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Sparsile Books. New. Special order direct from the distributor, Sparsile Books, 6, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. First Edition. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Sticker on rear jacket panel. 1996 Hard Cover. xiii, 213 pp. "Herman Melville is a towering figure in American literature?arguably the country's greatest nineteenth-century writer. Revising a number of entrenched misunderstandings about Melville in his later years, this is a remarkable and unprecedented account of the aged author giving himself over to a life of the mind. Focusing exclusively on a period usually associated with the waning of Melville's literary powers, William B. Dillingham shows that he was actually concentrating and intensifying his thoughts on art and creativity to a greater degree than ever before. Biographers have written little about Melville's deceptively "quiet" years after the publication of the long poem Clarel in 1876 and before his death in 1891. It was a time when he saw few friends or acquaintances, answered most of his letters as briefly as possible, and declined most social invitations. But for Melville, as for Emily Dickinson, such outward appearances belied an intense, engaged inner life. If for no other reason, Dillingham reminds us, this period merits more discerning attention because it was then that Melville produced Billy Budd as well as an impressive number of new and revised poems?while working full-time as a customs inspector for more than half of those years. What sustained Melville during that final period of ill health and near-poverty, says Dillingham, was his "circle," not of close friends but of works by a number of writers that he read with appreciative, yet discriminating, affinity, including Matthew Arnold, James Thomson, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Honore de Balzac. Dillingham relates these readings to Melville's own poetry and prose and to a rich variety of largely underappreciated topics relevant to Melville's later life, from Buddhism, the School of Pessimism, and New York intellectual life to Melville's job at the ever-corrupt customs house, his fear of disgrace and increased self-absorption, and his engagement with both the picturesque and the metaphorical power of roses in art and literature. This portrait of the great writer's final years is at once a biography, an intellectual history, and a discerning reading of his mature work. By showing that Melville's isolation was a conscious intellectual decision rather than a psychological quirk, Melville and His Circle reveals much that is new and challenging about Melville himself and about our notions of age and the persistence of imagination and creativity., University of Georgia Press, 1996, 4<
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Dillingham, William B:
Melville and His Circle: The Last Years
- encadernado, livro de bolso1996, ISBN: 9780820318561
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Sticker on rear jacket panel. 1996 Hard Cover. xiii, 213 pp. "Herman Melvi… mais…
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Sticker on rear jacket panel. 1996 Hard Cover. xiii, 213 pp. "Herman Melville is a towering figure in American literature?arguably the country's greatest nineteenth-century writer. Revising a number of entrenched misunderstandings about Melville in his later years, this is a remarkable and unprecedented account of the aged author giving himself over to a life of the mind. Focusing exclusively on a period usually associated with the waning of Melville's literary powers, William B. Dillingham shows that he was actually concentrating and intensifying his thoughts on art and creativity to a greater degree than ever before. Biographers have written little about Melville's deceptively "quiet" years after the publication of the long poem Clarel in 1876 and before his death in 1891. It was a time when he saw few friends or acquaintances, answered most of his letters as briefly as possible, and declined most social invitations. But for Melville, as for Emily Dickinson, such outward appearances belied an intense, engaged inner life. If for no other reason, Dillingham reminds us, this period merits more discerning attention because it was then that Melville produced Billy Budd as well as an impressive number of new and revised poems?while working full-time as a customs inspector for more than half of those years. What sustained Melville during that final period of ill health and near-poverty, says Dillingham, was his "circle," not of close friends but of works by a number of writers that he read with appreciative, yet discriminating, affinity, including Matthew Arnold, James Thomson, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Honore de Balzac. Dillingham relates these readings to Melville's own poetry and prose and to a rich variety of largely underappreciated topics relevant to Melville's later life, from Buddhism, the School of Pessimism, and New York intellectual life to Melville's job at the ever-corrupt customs house, his fear of disgrace and increased self-absorption, and his engagement with both the picturesque and the metaphorical power of roses in art and literature. This portrait of the great writer's final years is at once a biography, an intellectual history, and a discerning reading of his mature work. By showing that Melville's isolation was a conscious intellectual decision rather than a psychological quirk, Melville and His Circle reveals much that is new and challenging about Melville himself and about our notions of age and the persistence of imagination and creativity., University of Georgia Press, 1996, 4<
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Dillingham, William B.:Melville and His Circle: The Last Years
- livro usado ISBN: 9780820318561
Herman Melville is a towering figure in American literature - arguably the country's greatest nineteenth-century writer. Revising a number of entrenched misunderstandings about Melville i… mais…
Herman Melville is a towering figure in American literature - arguably the country's greatest nineteenth-century writer. Revising a number of entrenched misunderstandings about Melville in his later years, this is a remarkable and unprecedented account of the aged author giving himself over to a life of the mind. Focusing exclusively on a period usually associated with the waning of Melville's literary powers, William B. Dillingham shows that he was actually concentrating and intensifying his thoughts on art and creativity to a greater degree than ever before. What sustained Melville during that final period of ill health and near-poverty, says Dillingham, was his "circle", not of close friends but of works by a number of writers that he read with appreciative, yet discriminating, affinity, including Matthew Arnold, James Thomson, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Honore de Balzac. Dillingham relates these readings to Melville's own poetry and prose and to a rich variety of largely under-appreciated topics relevant to Melville's later life, from Buddhism, the School of Pessimism, and New York intellectual life to Melville's job at the ever-corrupt customs house, his fear of disgrace and increased self-absorption, and his engagement with both the picturesque and the methaphorical power of roses in art and literature. This portrait of the great writer's final years is at once a biography, an intellectual history, and a discerning reading of his mature work. By showing that Melville's isolation was a conscious intellectual decision rather than a psychological quirk, Melville and His Circle reveals much that is new and challenging about Melville himself and about our notions of age and thepersistence of imagination and creativity. Melville and His Circle: The Last Years Dillingham, William B., University of Georgia Press<
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William B. Dillingham:Melville and His Circle, 1877-1891 by William B. Dillingham
- livro usado ISBN: 9780820318561
Herman Melville is a towering figure in American literature - arguably the country's greatest nineteenth-century writer. Revising a number of entrenched misunderstandings about Melville i… mais…
Herman Melville is a towering figure in American literature - arguably the country's greatest nineteenth-century writer. Revising a number of entrenched misunderstandings about Melville in his later years, this is a remarkable and unprecedented account of the aged author giving himself over to a life of the mind. Focusing exclusively on a period usually associated with the waning of Melville's literary powers, William B. Dillingham shows that he was actually concentrating and intensifying his thoughts on art and creativity to a greater degree than ever before. What sustained Melville during that final period of ill health and near-poverty, says Dillingham, was his "circle", not of close friends but of works by a number of writers that he read with appreciative, yet discriminating, affinity, including Matthew Arnold, James Thomson, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Honore de Balzac. Dillingham relates these readings to Melville's own poetry and prose and to a rich variety of largely under-appreciated topics relevant to Melville's later life, from Buddhism, the School of Pessimism, and New York intellectual life to Melville's job at the ever-corrupt customs house, his fear of disgrace and increased self-absorption, and his engagement with both the picturesque and the methaphorical power of roses in art and literature. This portrait of the great writer's final years is at once a biography, an intellectual history, and a discerning reading of his mature work. By showing that Melville's isolation was a conscious intellectual decision rather than a psychological quirk, Melville and His Circle reveals much that is new and challenging about Melville himself and about our notions of age and thepersistence of imagination and creativity. Media >, [PU: University of Georgia Press]<
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Dillingham, William B.:Melville & His Circle: The Last Years
- primeira edição 1996, ISBN: 0820318566
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[EAN: 9780820318561], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Univ of Georgia Pr, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.], MELVILLE HERMAN 1819 1891 LITERATURE, MOBY DICK, AUTHORS. LITERARY CRITICISM, Biography … mais…
[EAN: 9780820318561], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Univ of Georgia Pr, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.], MELVILLE HERMAN 1819 1891 LITERATURE, MOBY DICK, AUTHORS. LITERARY CRITICISM, Biography & Autobiography|General, Biography & Autobiography|Literary, Literary Criticism|American|General, Social Science|Customs & Traditions, Social Science|Sociology|Urban, First printing. Cloth, 213 pps. with index. A fine, fresh copy. No dust jacket.<
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