It is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America). This scholarly edition aims to present a text as close to the author's intention as his difficult handwriting permits. Also included are related documents, illustrations, maps, and many pages and passages reproduced from the journals. The editors supply full annotations of Melville's allusions and terse entries and an exhaustive index makes available the range of his acquaintance with people, places, and works of art. Horsford places each of the journals in the context of Melville's career, discusses its general character, and points out the later literary uses he made of it, notably in Moby-Dick, Clarel, and his magazine pieces. In this edition's Historical Note, Howard C. Johns Hopkins Univ., 45 (1056pp) ISBN 978-0-8018-6892-4 Parker concluded the first volume of his definitive. Unlike his contemporaries Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Melville kept no habitual record of his days and thoughts each of his three journals records his actions and observations on trips far from home. HERMAN MELVILLE: A Biography, Volume 2, 18511891 Hershel Parker. This volume presents Melville's three known journals.
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