Friday, June 24, 2011

MELVILLE BIOGRAPHY: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE

24June 2011


MELVILLE BIOGRAPHY: AN INSIDE NARRATIV
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00 Foreword
01 The Footsteps Theory of Biography
02 The Biographical Basis of Textual Editing
03 Entangled by Pierre: The Inexorable Summons to the Archives
04 Creating The New Melville Log
05 Desiderata and Puzzlements
06 Melville’s Courtship of Elizabeth Shaw
07 The “Modern Boccaccio”: Melville as Heterosexual Sex Symbol
08 Facts Which Do Not Speak for Themselves
09 Presentism in Biography
10 Little Jack Horners and Archivophobics
11 Scholars and Recidivist Critics
12 The Malign Legacy of the New Criticism
13 Melville's Short Run of Good Luck
14 Melville and Hawthorne at the Hotel in Lenox
15 A Sacrifice for the Public Good
16 Late 20th-Century Intellectuals without Information
17 21st-Century Intellectuals without Information
18 Why Melville Took Hawthorne to the Holy Land
19 The Revival: Melville as Sex Symbol for Homosexuals
20 Damned by Dollars

This is shaping up. The reader is more than half through so I am racing to revise some of the later chapters. I'm making a totally new Ch. 12. High excitement here for a couple of weeks more.

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