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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 Melville, 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 is less well known as a poet and did not publish poetry until late in life; after the Civil War, he published Battle-Pieces, which sold well.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herman_Melville (1356 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)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Herman Melville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Melville's father was involved in the felt and fur import business, yet in 1830 his business collapsed and the Melvill family moved from New York City to Albany, where Allan Melvill died two years later.
		Melville's second novel, Omoo (1847) detailed the adventures of another whaling journey in which Melville took part in a mutiny and landed in a Tahitian jail from which he later easily escaped.
		Melville took his final whaling voyage as a harpooner on the Charles and Henry, but left the voyage while on the Hawaiian Islands and returned to America as a sailor on the United States, reaching Boston in 1844.
	www.gradesaver.com /ClassicNotes/Authors/about_herman_melville.html (787 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)

	Jean-Pierre Melville / films / director / biography / filmography
		The one unifying theme in Melville’s film is not crime, it is loyalty to one’s comrades and a respect for a self-imposed code of honour.
		Melville began by making low budget films which used extensive location work, becoming the inspiration for the New Wave film directors of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
		Melville’s final film, Le Flic (1971), which also starred Alain Delon, was another gangster film, but one which lacked the flair and impact of his earlier films.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_jpmelville.html (637 words)

	Herman Melville - Biography and Works
		Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819 in New York City into an established merchant family.
		In 1847 Melville married Elisabeth Shaw, daughter of the chief justice of Massachusetts.
		Melville died of heart failure on September 28, 1891.
	www.online-literature.com /melville (439 words)

	Herman Melville and Arrowhead - Berkshire Historical Society
		His mother, Maria Gansevoort Melville, was the daughter of General Peter Gansevoort of Albany, who was called the “Hero of Fort Stanwix” due to his role in the defense of that fort in Rome, New York, during the Revolution.
		Melville enjoyed moderate success with these novels and was now an established member of the American literary scene, although he was not making much money from his writing.
		Melville thought of the beautiful view of Mount Greylock from the Melvill farm, and within a week had purchased the neighboring farm which commanded a similar view.
	www.mobydick.org /hm.html (1735 words)

	Herman Melville - Poems and Biography by AmericanPoems.com
		Herman Melville was born in New York City into an established merchant family.
		Melville had almost completed Moby-Dick when Hawthorne encouraged him to change it from a story full of details about whaling, into an allegorical novel.
		Melville's death on September 28, 1891, in New York, was noted with only one obituary notice.
	www.americanpoems.com /poets/melville (740 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.
		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: a creature that had cost Ahab his leg on a previous voyage.
	melville.thefreelibrary.com (1434 words)

	Melville: Genius Ignored (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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's books, commands attention for the clearness of its narrative, the novelty of its scenery, and the simplicity of its style, in which latter feature it is a wondrous contrast to Mardi, Moby Dick, and Pierre.
		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)

	Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne
		In the summer of 1850 Melville purchased an eighteenth-century farmhouse in the community of Pittsfield in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
		In August of 1852 Melville wrote to Hawthorne about the true story of a New England woman who had taken in and married a shipwrecked sailor only to be abandoned by him.
		Melville agreed, but it is uncertain now whether he ever actually did anything with the material; at any rate, no published version of the story by him has been discovered.
	www.melville.org /hawthrne.htm (687 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)

	Jean-Pierre Melville
		It is the relative indirectness of Melville's approach, combined with the intensely studied emphasis he places on significant – or 'insignificant' – gestures, actions, elements of mise-en-scène and stylistic devices (such as fades, wipes, close-ups and precisely deployed camera movement) that most commonly leads to such readings of his work.
		Melville's characters rarely change or transform – they have an understanding of the world and their place within it – but the relationships between them and their milieu evolve gradually through a process of acceptance and dawning mutuality.
		It is important to note that Melville's cinéphilia is rooted in a love of early sound cinema and the soundtracks of his films – though often highly sophisticated and breathtakingly synthetic – do share this cinema's routine juxtaposition of silence and clatter, as well as its tendency to isolate individual tones, voices and ambient noises.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/melville.html (5273 words)

	The Confidence-Man Hypertext
		States that the book dramatizes a critique of the "abilities of fiction, language, and individual perception to embody experience truthfully." Notes how the narrator "feign[s] ignorance" in describing a character, relating features only as surmises, even though the features are later seen to be the definitive marks of the character.
		Examines the use of negatives in "mak[ing] facts insubstantial and inexact," and notes how Melville uses analogy and language in general as a means of self- contradiction.
		Concentrates on Melville's "profound engagement with questions of epistemology," reading The Confidence-Man as an exploration of "what philosophy calls other-minds skepticism"--that is, the problem of a human subject knowing the human subjectivity of others.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA96/atkins/cmmain.html (956 words)

	Herman Melville
		His father, Allan Melvill, an importer of French dry goods, went bankrupt and died when Melville was 12.
		Maria Gansevoort Melvill was left alone to raise the children.
		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)

	City of Melville, SK - Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The City of Melville is a clean, safe and friendly community of approximately 4,600 residents which constitutes an excellent environment to retire or live and raise a young family.
		Melville is located in South Eastern Saskatchewan along Highway # 10.
		Melville has hosted high profile sporting events including the southern men's curling playdowns in 1996, The Tankard men's provincial curling championships in 1998 and the Canada Cup national midget baseball championships in 2001 and 2002.
	www.city.melville.sk.ca (311 words)

	Melville Hall Hotel and Utopia Spa, Sandown, Isle of Wight
		Melville Hall Hotel has undergone extensive refurbishment to ensure you of a comfortable and relaxing stay, whilst providing you with an unequalled range of Leisure Facilities.
		Nestling in a quiet semi-rural setting on the outskirts of Sandown the hotel is only a few minutes stroll from the seafront, cliff walk and shops.
		All bedrooms at Melville Hall are en-suite and include satellite television, direct dial telephones and tea and coffee making facilities.
	www.melvillehall.co.uk (195 words)

	Herman Melville in Antebellum America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This website is based on an experimental course offered in the Spring of 1998 at Northwestern CT Community-Technical College called Technology for the Humanities: Herman Melville in Antebellum America.
		We focused on the literature of Herman Melville as it relates to and responds to the issues of antebellum America, a period of American history generally considered to be 1820 – 1860.
		It is also roughly marked by the birth of Melville in 1819 and the end of his professional writing career in 1858.
	www.nwctc.commnet.edu /fox/melville/classmaster.htm (475 words)

	The Life and Works of Herman Melville
		An original study about the influence of Orientalism on Melville and how Transcendentalists and Orientalists were instrumental to Melville's writing of his classic novel.
		Nantucket's Tried-Out "Moby-Dick", by Robert diCurcio, is a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of Melville's greatest work, intended to assist first-time readers on this long and difficult, but fascinating, adventure.
		Links to complete electronic texts of Melville's works (at present only the more popular novels and several short pieces are available).
	www.melville.org /melville.htm (686 words)

	Melville Room
		Established in 1953 by Dr. Henry A. Murray of Harvard University (himself a distinguished student of Melville and his works), The Melville Memorial Room offers one of the world's largest collections of Melville family memorabilia, including photographs, paintings, prints, artifacts and furniture.
		Dr. Murray not only donated his own collection of Melville research materials and memorabilia to The Athenaeum; his planning and generosity led Melville's granddaughter, Eleanor Melville Metcalf, and grandneices Agnes Morewood, Helen Gansevoort Morewood and Margaret T. Morewood, to donate many items that had come down through the family.
		Ishmail: the listserv for scholarly and casual discussion of Herman Melville and his works.
	www.berkshire.net /PittsfieldLibrary/lhg/melvillerm.htm (274 words)

	IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection
		"Thomas Powell, an English-born journalist, claimed in April 1856 that Melville once announced to him a plan for a work 'intended to illustrate the principle of remorse, and to demonstrate that there is, very often, less real virtue in moral respectability than in accidental crime'...
		This crisis of national identity, insofar as US economic opportunity had long been opposed to European destitution, was also a crisis of credibility, as anonymous beggars on city streets laid claim to worthy poverty.
		Some of these are little more than notes, but several vividly reveal Melville's intellectual excitement and the depth of trust and affection that he felt for Hawthorne in the early, happy days of their friendship."
	www.ipl.org /div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=mel-59 (606 words)

	Herman Melville Life Stories, Books, & Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His experiences on this and several subsequent voyages would provide the basis for a half-dozen sea novels written in a five-year burst, 1846-51.
		In his lifetime, and much to his disgust, Melville's reputation was not made on the last of those, Moby Dick, but on the first, Typee.
		In 1841, at the age of twenty-two, Herman Melville signed on aboard the Acushnet, a New Bedford 3-master headed for the whale-killing fields in the South Seas.
	www.todayinliterature.com /biography/herman.melville.asp (285 words)

	Research Guide: Herman Melville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		CONSULS catalog workstations are located in the Reference Area on the first floor, and on each of the other floors of the Haas Library.
		Melville Herman 1819 1891 (main heading is subdivided)
		Melville Herman 1819 1891 - Religion and ethics
	www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu /library/gd_melville.html (1520 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)

	The Life and Works of Herman Melville
		The dates celebrate the anniversary of Herman Melville's departure from the port of New Bedford aboard the Fairhaven whaleship in 1841.
		Observations on Melville by friends, family members, and celebrities
		Melville's reflections on his works, life, and other topics
	www.melville.org (686 words)

	Herman Melville
		Ann Woodlief of VCU has prepared a hypertext study version of "Bartleby, the Scrivener."
		Christopher Benfey's article on Melville and Manjiro Nakahama is available (with illustrations) in the new issue of Common-place.
		Poems from John Marr and Timoleon (The Century, May 1892), with an introductory note on Melville by Arthur Stedman (Page images at MOA)
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/melville.htm (271 words)

	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)

	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 (126 words)

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