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	Herman Melville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819, as the third child to Allan and Maria Gansevoort Melvill (Maria would later add an 'e' to the surname), and received his early education in that city.
		Melville's roving disposition and a desire to support himself independently of family assistance led him to seek work as a surveyor on the Erie Canal.
		Melville's short stories The Tartarus of Maids and The Paradise of Bachelors, as well as his posthumous novella Billy Budd have been seen by some contemporary critics as anticipating key issues in the fields of gender studies and queer studies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herman_Melville (1901 words)

	Herman Melville Biography
		Melville made friends with the lanky, roguish steward, John B. Troy, and was impressed by the seamanship of James German, the hard-drinking mate, and the perversity and reckless courage of the Maori harpooner, Benbow Byrne.
		While Melville claimed authenticity for his narrative, and it was important that he should because one of its aims was to expose abuses of American mariners, he did not wish to offend by his satiric treatment of the easily identifiable officers under whom he served nor to detract from his creative achievement.
		Melville's antiflogging polemics had as their obvious purpose the correction of a naval abuse then much discussed, but they were related to the slavery issue because slaves were the only other Americans who served under the lash.
	people.brandeis.edu /~teuber/melvillebio.html (14293 words)

	little blue light - Herman Melville
		Melville began to expand his knowledge of classic literature and, as a result, his next novel, Mardi, published in 1849, which was expected to be another simple adventure story, became something decidedly more romantic and allegorical, much to the displeasure of his publisher and the reading public.
		Melville's family saw that Herman was worn out from this intense period of writing and the financial strain imposed by his recent failures.
		Melville's literary reputation remained in decline until he was rediscovered in the 1920's, when a generation, disillusioned by the Great War began to appreciate the depth of Melville's spiritual struggles and the 'modern' experimental style of his stories.
	www.littlebluelight.com /lblphp/intro.php?ikey=18 (1881 words)

	Melville: Genius Ignored
		Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819, in New York City, the son of Allan Melvill and Maria Gansevoort.
		Melville, who according to his story, was graceless enough to desert from a new England whale ship, preferring the society of cannibals to the interminable casks of corned beef and impracticable bread which so afflicted his imagination in the hold of that vessel.
		Melville takes this vessel, fills her full of strange men, and starts her on her insane quest, that he may have the ocean under and around him to muse upon, as though he were in a spacious burial-ground, with alternations of sunlight and moonlight and deep starless darkness to set his thoughts to.
	www.serve.com /Lucius/Melville.index.html (12289 words)

	HERMAN MELVILLE - LoveToKnow Article on HERMAN MELVILLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Thereafter, with the exception of a passenger voyage around the world in I86o, Melville remained in the United States, devoting himself to literaturethough for 1 considerable period (1866I885) he held a post in the New Yorli custom-houseand being perhaps Hawthornes most intimatc friend among the literary men of America.
		His writings are numerous, and of varying merit; his verse, patriotic and other, is forgotten; and his works of fiction and of travel are of irregular execution.
		Melville was the product of a period in American literature when the fiction written by writers below Irving, Poe and Hawthorne was measured by humble artistic standards.
	48.1911encyclopedia.org /M/ME/MELVILLE_HERMAN.htm (208 words)

	Herman Melville
		Herman Melville was born in New York City into an established merchant family.
		In 1847 Melville married Elisabeth Shaw, daughter of the chief justice of Massachusetts.
		Ahab reveals to the crew that the purpose of the voyage is to hunt and kill the snow-white sperm whale, known as Moby-Dick, that had cost Ahab his leg on a previous voyage.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /melville.htm (1814 words)

	Herman Melville - Free Online Library
		Herman Melville was born in New York City to an established merchant family.
		His father, Allan Melville, an importer of French dry goods, became bankrupt and insane, and died when Melville was twelve.
		Melville's death on September 28, 1891, in New York, was noted with only one obituary notice.
	melville.thefreelibrary.com (1434 words)

	Collecting Herman Melville
		In the case of Melville, there is a strong parallel between the revival of general scholarly interest in him and interest in Melville collecting.
		Melville was never completely ignored by intelligent readers during his decades of eclipse.
		Melville's centenary in 1919 had brought numerous literary notices, and a weary and disillusioned post-war world was probably for more ready for his prose.
	www.reeseco.com /papers/melville.htm (5119 words)

	PAL: Herman Melville (1819-1891)
		Melville - probably because he had ceased his literary activity - has fallen into a literary decline, as a result of which his books are little known.
		Melville was to call it "Billy in the Darbies," and he wrote a brief prose headnote for it to explain Billy's situation to the reader.
		Melville and Hawthorne In The Berkshires: A Symposium.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap3/melville.html (5648 words)

	Herman Melville Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com
		Herman Melville was born into a large, well-respected, literary family in New York in 1819.
		The family was by this time much impoverished and Herman took a succession of menial and teaching jobs in an effort to support his large family.
		Melville began to write and his novels caused an immediate impact, both of critical acclaim and public outrage.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/0/36 (474 words)

	Herman Melville
		Melville is thus quite explicit about the relationship between Ishmael and Queequeg, and, except for the baby, we really do not need any abstruse symbolic literary analysis to understand its more than subtle erotic motivation.
		Melville in many of his works is intensely concerned with the intimate love between males - even extending to marriage between men - irrespective of whether or not we choose to call this homosexual love.
		Melville clearly wishes to abdicate responsibility for ascribing a motive to Claggart, for to do so would be to recognize that he, like Claggart, desires Billy Budd.
	www.infopt.demon.co.uk /melville.htm (2572 words)

	Herman Melville - Biography and Works
		Herman Melville (1819-1891), American author, best known for his novels of the sea and especially for his masterpiece Moby Dick (1851), a whaling adventure dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne.
		Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819 in New York City into an established merchant family.
		Did Herman melville write his novel, [U]Moby Dick[/U], and used it as a means to consciously and/or subconsciously wrestle with his sexuality and his religious beliefs?
	www.online-literature.com /melville (487 words)

	Herman Melville - Books and Biography
		Herman Melville (1819-1891) was born in New York City into an established merchant family.
		His father, Allan Melvill, an importer of French dry goods, became bankrupt and insane, dying when Melville was 12.
		After unsuccessful lecture tours in 1857-60, Melville lived in Washington, D.C. He moved to New York, where he was appointed customs inspector on the New York docks.
	www.readprint.com /author-62/Herman-Melville (1367 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - Herman Melville
		Born in 1819 into a once-prominent New York family, Herman Melville was raised in an atmosphere of financial instability and genteel pretense.
		However, it was his adventures as a seaman in 1845 that inspired Melville to write.
		Herman Melville died of a heart attack on September 28, 1891, at the age of 72.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/236 (553 words)

	Herman Melville
		"Melville's Quarrel with Fiction." "I think it can be shown that none of Melville's longer works are wholly or even mainly fictive, except in that broadest sense in which everything formulated into words is a fiction.
		Melville's debt to Milton: Inverted satanic morphology and rhetoric in the confidence-man, in Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 2003 by Urbanczyk, Aaron
		Melville's chaotic style and the use of generative models: an essay in method, in Style, Spring, 1996 by Michael Kearns
	www.literaryhistory.com /19thC/Melville.htm (773 words)

	Fiction: Herman Melville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The death of his merchant father when Melville was twelve shattered the economic security of his family.
		The financial panic of 1837 reduced the Melvilles to the edge of poverty, and, at age nineteen, Melville went to sea.
		Economic conditions upon his return were still grim, and after a frustrating stint as a country school teacher, he again went to sea, this time on a four-year whaling voyage.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/melville.htm (247 words)

	Herman Melville - Wikiquote
		Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, essayist, and poet.
		This statement is often attributed entirely to Melville, but the way he presents it in the story indicates that he might be quoting a lesser known author.
		In war-time on the field or in the fleet, a mortal punishment decreed by a drum-head court—on the field sometimes decreed by but a nod from the General—follows without delay on the heel of conviction without appeal.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Herman_Melville (5458 words)

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		Herman Melville: A Biographical Essay from Gale's "Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol.
		Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne And the Antemosaic Cosmic Man: Race, Class And the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology in an American Renaissance Writer
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	Herman Melville's Arrowhead - Berkshire Historical Society
		Welcome to the home page of Arrowhead, home of Herman Melville from 1850-1863.
		It was at Arrowhead that Melville wrote his most famous work, Moby-Dick, along with three other novels, Pierre, The Confidence-Man, and Israel Potter, a collection of short stories entitled The Piazza Tales, all of his magazine stories, and some of his poetry.
		Arrowhead is now a house museum interpreting the life of the Melville family in the Berkshires.
	www.mobydick.org (81 words)

	Herman Melville Collection at Bartleby.com
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Authors > Fiction > Herman Melville
		Imprimis: I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
		In this classic short story, Melville presents us with a perplexing legal scrivener, Bartleby, and the havoc he creates around him.
	www.bartleby.com /people/MelvleH.html (121 words)

	Herman Melville
		Classic Poetry > Herman Melville > John Milton
		If you have a poem by this author that is NOT on our list, please feel free to submit it for publication.
		Submit a NEW Classic Poem for Herman Melville!
	www.netpoets.com /classic/044000.htm (136 words)

	The Literary Gothic \| Herman Melville
		Part of the The Victorian Literary Studies Archive, this concordance allows you to search etexts of several of Melville's works, including Moby-Dick.
		The site that shows you around Herman Melville's home (from 1850-1863).
		ISHMAIL-L. Discussion list for all things Melville, sponsored by the Melville Society: mailserv@vaxc.hofstra.edu
	www.litgothic.com /Authors/melville.html (137 words)

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