Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine

by Robert Milder

Book Overview

Exiled Royalties is a literary/biographical study of the course of Melville's career from his experience in Polynesia through his retirement from the New York Custom House and his composition of three late volumes of poetry and Billy Budd, Sailor. The ten essays in the book are rooted in a belief that "Melville's work," as Charles Olson said, "must be left in his own 'life, '" which for Milder means primarily his spiritual, psychological, and vocational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019533910X
• ISBN13: 9780195339109
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"