{"product_id":"melville-biography-hershel-parker-9780810127098","title":"Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMelville Biography: An Inside Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e is Hershel Parker's history of the writing of Melville biographies, enriched by a lifetime of intimate working partnerships with great Melville scholars of different generations and by the author's experience of successive phases of literary criticism. Throughout this bold book, Hershel Parker champions archival-based biography and the all-but-lost art of embodying such scholarship in literary criticism. First is a mesmerizing autobiographical account of what went into creating the award-winning and comprehensive \u003ci\u003eHerman Melville: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e. Then Parker traces six decades of the \"unholy war\" waged against biographical scholarship, in which critics repeatedly imposed the theory of organic unity on Melville's disrupted life--not just on his writings--while truncating his body of work and ignoring his study of art and aesthetics. In this connection, Parker celebrates discoveries made by \"divine amateurs,\" before throwing open his workshop to challenge ambitious readers with research projects. This is a book for Melville fans and Parker fans, as well as for readers, writers, and would-be writers of biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hershel Parker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810127091\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810127098\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 587\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 2.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2013 pg. 17","brand":"Hershel Parker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45265121542399,"sku":"9780810127098","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_459e310f-2195-45bf-aba0-68cc0a406145.jpg?v=1713420214","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/melville-biography-hershel-parker-9780810127098","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}