Saturday, June 18, 2011

MELVILLE BIOGRAPHY: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE: The Latest Table of Contents

18 June 2011

MELVILLE BIOGRAPHY: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE


00 Foreword
01 The Footsteps Theory of Biography
02 The Biographical Basis of Textual Editing
03 Entangled by Pierre: The Inexorable Summons to the Archives
04 Creating The New Melville Log
05 Desiderata and Puzzlements
06 Melville’s Courtship of Elizabeth Shaw
07 The “Modern Boccaccio”: Melville as Heterosexual Sex Symbol
08 Facts Which Do Not Speak for Themselves
09 Scholars and Recidivist Critics
10 Little Jack Horners and Archivophobics
11 The Repudiation of Facts
12 Presentism in Biography
13 Melville's Short Run of Good Luck
14 Melville and Hawthorne's Last Meeting in the Berkshires
15 A Sacrifice for the Public Good
16 Intellectuals without Information through 1997
17 Intellectuals without Information After 2000
18 Why Melville Took Hawthorne to the Holy Land
19 The Revival: Melville as Sex Symbol for Homosexuals
20 Damned by Dollars

This is happening. The Chief Reader is devouring and returning 2 chapters a day, starting yesterday.

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