Includes bibliographical references (p. 545-561) and index.
Contents:
Part III. The biographer in the workshop: demonstrations and challenges: Damned by dollars : Moby-Dick and the price of genius. Textual editor as biographer in training : the Norton Moby-Dick and the Northwestern-Newberry writings of Herman Melville -- Entangled by Pierre : doing biography away from the archives -- Creating the new Melville log and writing the biography -- Facts that do not speak for themselves -- Desiderata and discoveries in traditional archives and databases -- Part II. Critics vs. biographical scholarship: Agenda-driven reviewers : Melville in the insular New York newspapers and magazines vs. global loomings from "ragtag bloggers" and litblogs -- Little Jack Horners and archivophobics -- Biographical scholars and recidivist critics -- Presentism in Melville biography -- The late twentieth-century mini-Melville: New York intellectuals without information -- The early twenty-first-century mini-Melville : New York intellectuals without information -- Part III. The biographer in the workshop: demonstrations and challenges: Melville as the "modern Boccaccio" : the fascinations of Fayaway -- Melville's courtship of Elizabeth Shaw -- Melville's short run of good luck (1845-1849) : fool's paradise without international copyright -- Melville without international copyright (1850-1854) : a Harper "sacrifice" for the "public good" -- Melville and Hawthorne's dinner at the Hotel in Lenox -- Why Melville took Hawthorne to the Holy Land : biography enhanced by databases and an amateur blogger -- Melville as a Titan of literature among high-minded British admirers : the Kory-Kory and Queequeg component -- Damned by dollars : Moby-Dick and the price of genius.
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