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by: Hennig Cohen, Donald Yanella
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.3
EAN: 9780823211845
ISBN: 0823211843
Label: Fordham University Press
Manufacturer: Fordham University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 258
Publication Date: January 01, 1993
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Release Date: January 01, 1993
Sales Rank: 3941388
Studio: Fordham University Press
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Product Description:
This previously unpublished letter, one of 36 to be retrieved since the publication of The Letters of Herman Melville (1960), has earned a place in the New York Public Library's Gansevoort-Lansing Collection.
The Malcolm Letter was written by Melville in 1849, on the birth of his son .In a bit of dramatic irony, Melville reflects on the responsibility looming ahead of him as the reader notes the tragedy that Melville cannot possibly foresee- his son Malcolm's suicide eighteen years later. Cohen and Yannella's careful study relives for the reader this and other events which shaped the clannish Melville family history and how the author's struggle with these pressures is manifested in his writing.
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