Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of MobyDick,Used

Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of MobyDick,Used

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A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of MobyDick, written by a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Biography and based on fresh archival research, which reveals that the anarchic spirit animating Melvilles canonical work was inspired by his great love affair with a shockingly unconventional married woman.Herman Melvilles epic novel, MobyDick, was a spectacular failure when it was published in 1851, effectively ending its authors 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.In Melville in Love Pulitzer Prizefinalist Michael Shelden sheds light on this literary mystery to tell a story of Melvilles passionate, obsessive, and clandestine affair with a married woman named Sarah Morewood, whose libertine impulses encouraged and sustained Melvilles 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 luminarieslike Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and Nathaniel HawthorneMelville found the courage to take the leap from light works of adventure to the hugely brilliant, utterly subversive MobyDick.Filled with the rich detail and immense drama of Melvilles secret life, Melville in Love tells the gripping story of how one of our greatest novelists found his muse.

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