03256cam a2200337 4500 526240020 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062419064 0062419064 B015WXQE4U Amazon d873350b-7dee-42be-9df7-9941639b46de OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2405092 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Shelden Michael. Melville in Love [Libby] : The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick. Ecco, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2498kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 2498kB. Biography & Autobiography. History. Multi-Cultural. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick, written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Biography and based on fresh archival research, which reveals that the anarchic spirit animating Melville's canonical work was inspired by his great love affair with a shockingly unconventional married woman.</p> <p>Herman Melville's epic novel, Moby-Dick, was a spectacular failure when it was published in 1851, effectively ending its author's rise to literary fame. Because he was neglected by academics for so long, and because he made little effort to preserve his legacy, we know very little about Melville, and even less about what he called his "wicked book." Scholars still puzzle over what drove Melville to invent Captain Ahab's mad pursuit of the great white whale.</p> <p>In Melville in Love Pulitzer Prize-finalist Michael Shelden sheds light on this literary mystery to tell a story of Melville's passionate, obsessive, and clandestine affair with a married woman named Sarah Morewood, whose libertine impulses encouraged and sustained Melville's own. In his research, Shelden discovered unexplored documents suggesting that, in their shared resistance to the "iron rule" of social conformity, Sarah and Melville had forged an illicit and enduring romantic and intellectual bond. Emboldened by the thrill of courting Sarah in secret, the pleasure of falling in love, and the excitement of spending time with literary luminaries—like Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Nathaniel Hawthorne—Melville found the courage to take the leap from light works of adventure to the hugely brilliant, utterly subversive Moby-Dick.</p> <p>Filled with the rich detail and immense drama of Melville's secret life, Melville in Love tells the gripping story of how one of our greatest novelists found his muse.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d873350b-7dee-42be-9df7-9941639b46de&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d873350b-7dee-42be-9df7-9941639b46de&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d873350b-7dee-42be-9df7-9941639b46de&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)