{"product_id":"melville-his-world-and-work-paperback","title":"Melville: His World and Work - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Delbanco\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian's perspective and a critic's insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eMelville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded -- in his books, letters, and marginalia; and in conversations with friends like Nathaniel Hawthorne and with his literary cronies in Manhattan -- an incomparable chapter of American history. From the bawdy storytelling of \u003ci\u003eTypee\u003c\/i\u003e to the spiritual preoccupations building up to and beyond\u003ci\u003e Moby Dick\u003c\/i\u003e, Delbanco brilliantly illuminates Melville's life and work, and his crucial role as a man of American letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Delbanco is the author of \u003cb\u003eThe Death of Satan\u003c\/b\u003e (1995), \u003cb\u003eRequired Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now\u003c\/b\u003e (1997), and \u003cb\u003eThe Real American Dream\u003c\/b\u003e (1999), all of which were NYTBR notable books. \u003cb\u003eThe Puritan Ordeal \u003c\/b\u003e(1989) won the Lionel Trilling Award from Columbia University. He has edited \u003cb\u003eWriting New England\u003c\/b\u003e (2001), \u003cb\u003eThe Portable Abraham Lincoln\u003c\/b\u003e (1992), volume two of \u003cb\u003eThe Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson\u003c\/b\u003e (with Teresa Toulouse), and, with Alan Heimert, \u003cb\u003eThe Puritans in America\u003c\/b\u003e (1985). His essays appear regularly in\u003ci\u003e The New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRaritan\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2001 he was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2003 named New York State Scholar of the Year by the New York Council for the Humanities. He is a trustee of the National Humanities Center and the Library of America, and has served as Vice President of PEN American Center. Since 1995 he has held the Julian Clarence Levi Professor Chair in the Humanities at Columbia University.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 8.04 x 5.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52467812303155,"sku":"9780375702976","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/FLYrkOwGVK9780375702976.webp?v=1759344886","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/melville-his-world-and-work-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}