Robert Milder: 2 books
Hawthorne's Habitations
A Literary Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The first literary/biographical study of Hawthorne's full career in almost forty years, Hawthorne's Habitations presents a self-divided man and writer strongly attracted to reality for its own sake and remarkably adept at rendering it yet fearful of the nothingness he intuited at its heart. Making...
Exiled Royalties
Melville and the Life We Imagine
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
Exiled Royalties is a literary/biographical study of the course of Melville's career from his experience in Polynesia through his retirement from the New York Custom House and his composition of three late volumes of poetry and Billy Budd, Sailor. Conceived separately but narratively and thematically...