Download or read book Tolerable Entertainment written by John Evelev and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the social context of a great American writer In TolerableEntertainment, Herman Melville's life and literary work serve as windowson the tumultuous world of antebellum New York City. Charting Melville'swritings from Typee (1846) to Pierre (1852) as responses to hisexperience of living in the city, this book reveals the dramatic shifts inAmerican life occurring at the time. Perhaps more than any othernineteenth-century writer, Melville has been read and understood in thecontext of his career, embodied in a narrative of the trajectory fromimmature emergence, through brilliant ascendance, to collapse intoneglect.

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