The Private Melville

by Philip Young

The Private Melville demonstrates how great a role his profound sense of privacy played in Melville's life and work. Secrets he was careful never to reveal are unmasked by Philip Young. Privacy, as it appears to Melville here, is of three types. First are family matters the public had no business knowing about, such as the life story of a secret half-sister; next the story of the life of a cousin, model for the heroine of his incestuous novel, Pierre...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271008571
• ISBN13: 9780271008578
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"