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White Lies: Melville's Narratives of Facts

White Lies: Melville's Narratives of Facts

John Samson

John Seelye, Melville, and Axel Carl Bredahl, Melville's Angles of Vision ( Gainesville, Fla., 1972), see Redburn learning relativism. Edgar Dryden, Melville's Thema- tics, says that Redburn gains a new level of awareness by accepting guilt.
Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine

Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine

Robert Milder

31. Quoted in Jay Leyda, The Melville Log, 2 vols. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951), 2:605. 32. Miller 321. Laurie Robertson-Lorant, Melville: A Biography ( New York: Clarkson Potter, 1996), 509; Garner, Civil War World of Herman Melville ...
Ellen Terry

Ellen Terry

Joy Melville

A lavishly illustrated biography about Victorian actress - no competing title
Diaghilev and Friends

Diaghilev and Friends

Joy Melville

Exciting new portrait featuring the racy world of opera and dance in Paris of the 1920s.
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: A Routledge Study Guide and ...

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: A Routledge Study Guide and ...

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1 Every scholar of Melville is greatly indebted to his principal modern biographers, Hershel Parker and Laurie Robertson—Lorant, and to the editors of the Northwestern—Newberry editions of Melville's collected works, which provide standard ...
Phobias and Obsessions

Phobias and Obsessions

Joy Melville

Case histories of phobics in the United States, Britain, and France are examined in this discussion of irrational fears and possible treatment methods
Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville

Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville

Michael Paul Rogin

See Melville, Herman Moredock, Colonel, 245-7 Morewood, Sarah, 111, 183-4, 186 Morgan, Edmund, 127 Murray, Henry, 168 Nationalism, 20, 22, 39-40, 71, 73 -4, 102-3, 106, ... See Melville, Herman Pierce, Franklin, 148, 219-20, 255 Pierre.
Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint

Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint

Douglas Robillard

Melville's allusions to works of art embellish his poems and novels.
Ellen Terry and Smallhythe Place (Kent)

Ellen Terry and Smallhythe Place (Kent)

Joy Melville

A National Trust guidebook covering history, horticulture, garden history, history of art, architecture, social history, natural environment and conservation.
HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CHRONICLE (Jan 1908-Oct1910)

HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CHRONICLE (Jan 1908-Oct1910)

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The Poems of Herman Melville

The Poems of Herman Melville

Herman Melville

In this revised edition Douglas Robillard updates the scholarship on his poetry through the introduction and notes.
Melville's White Whale: Pragmatism's Role in Moby Dick

Melville's White Whale: Pragmatism's Role in Moby Dick

Lauren Becker

Many scholars have broached the subject of Melville's relation to pragmatism, but in most cases, they have merely grazed it.
Melville: A Biography

Melville: A Biography

Laurie Robertson-Lorant

Drawing on more than five hundred newly discovered letters, this book immerses the reader in the often turbulent world of Herman Melville, from his childhood to his seafaring days, to his often frustrating career as a writer.
A Companion to Melville studies

A Companion to Melville studies

John Bryant

"An encyclopedic attempt to consolidate what is presently known about Melville's life, works, and culture. . . . consistently informative and frequently provocative." Choice
Sing for Joy

Sing for Joy

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81 Joy to the World Isaac Watts C Dm C G7 □ Messiah Arr. by Lowell Mason p G Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth re - ceive her Joy to the earth, the Sav - ior reigns! Let men their songs em - He rules the world with truth and grace,  ...
The Cambridge History of the American Novel

The Cambridge History of the American Novel

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Hester Blum's emphasis in this volume on the fluid nature of Melville's use of the sea narrative, allowing for metaphysical and cultural as well as geographical explorations, identifies an important aspect of Melville's struggles with “issues such ...
Julia Margaret Cameron: Pioneer Photographer

Julia Margaret Cameron: Pioneer Photographer

Joy Melville

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was born in Calcutta in 1815, one of seven daughters to a man known as the biggest liar in India.
Melville’s Anatomies

Melville’s Anatomies

Samuel Otter

See, for example, John Sullivan Dwight's review from the Brook Farm Harbinger and the anonymous review in Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, both reprinted in Milton Stern, Critical Essays on Herman Melville's “Typee,” 22–27 and 35–37 ...
Kidnap, Hijack and Extortion: The Response

Kidnap, Hijack and Extortion: The Response

Richard Clutterbuck

They then took him back to his car and left him handcuffed to the steering wheel. They escaped with £50 000. STUART MELVILLE On 11 March 1984, Stuart Melville, manager of the American Express office in Dublin, was kidnapped from his ...
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

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2. HESTER BLUM ... royal ship, rather than his original continental one. In an attempt to assimilate to the man-of-war's crew, Israel calls himself “Peter Perkins,” maintopman, and jumps from mess (a 22 Melville and Oceanic Studies Hester Blum.
Rediscovering Joy: The Dynamic Power of the Reformation in ...

Rediscovering Joy: The Dynamic Power of the Reformation in ...

Tim Chester

The Galatians had lost the joy of God’s blessing because they had departed from the truths of the gospel. The Reformation - and the book - is an invitation to rediscover the joy of the gospel.
Proceedings of the Heritage Conservation-now!: Seminar and ...

Proceedings of the Heritage Conservation-now!: Seminar and ...

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... the University of Lyon in 1972 and qualified in the Examination of Architecte en Chef des Monuments Historiques in 1981. Paper: Conservation For What and For Whom Rodney Stuart Melville Speaker Rodney Stuart Melville is an architect.
Cruel and unusual: punishment and US culture

Cruel and unusual: punishment and US culture

Brian Jarvis

Cited in Michael Paul Rogin, Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1985), p. 265. 5. Herman Melville, White-Jacket, or the World in a Man-of-War (Oxford World's Classics: ...
Literary Luminaries of the Berkshires: From Herman Melville ...

Literary Luminaries of the Berkshires: From Herman Melville ...

Bernard A. Drew

From Herman Melville to Patricia Highsmith Bernard A. Drew. About. the. Author. B. ernard A. Drew wallpapered two servants' rooms at the Bryant Homestead as a summer laborer; studied “The Novel of Violence” in English class with Robert ...
Journal of the Short Story in English

Journal of the Short Story in English

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JOURNAL OF THE SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH N°36 TABLE OF CONTENTS Matthew GUILLEN. - Melville's Wall Street: It Speaks for Itself Jane DESMARAIS. - Preferring not to: The Paradox of Passive Resistance in Herman Melville's ...
Herman Melville: Moby Dick and Other Works

Herman Melville: Moby Dick and Other Works

Raychel Haugrud Reiff

"A biography of writer Herman Melville that describes his era, his major works--especially Moby Dick, his life, and the legacy of his writing"--Provided by publisher.

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