Author : Erik Hage
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786470763
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Melville-Hawthorne Connection by : Erik Hage
Download or read book The Melville-Hawthorne Connection written by Erik Hage and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first in-depth examination of the friendship between the authors. Hawthorne's influence upon Moby-Dick is weighed, as is the probability of Melville's influence upon Hawthorne. This was a friendship whose true basis--beyond an almost instantaneous mutual affinity and admiration for each other--was intellectual ideas and literary pursuits, and the conversations between the two hewed mostly to philosophical and spiritual rumination as well as to those matters that concern writers most: craft and publishing.