Strike Through the Mask: Herman Melville and the Scene of Writing

by Elizabeth Renker

Book Overview

Herman Melville was an intense and tortured writer, plagued by writing anxiety, emotional problems, and painful physical ailments. He produced his extraordinary body of work only with great anguish, and he appears to have inflicted great anguish on those around him. According to Elizabeth Renker, we learn much about Melville's fiction if we see how violent and frustrating the experience of writing was for him. In Strike through the Mask Renker argues...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801852307
• ISBN13: 9780801852305
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"