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Exiled Royalties - Melville and the Life We Imagine (Paperback)
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Exiled Royalties - Melville and the Life We Imagine (Paperback)
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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. The ten essays
in the book are rooted in a belief that "Melville's work," as
Charles Olson said, "must be left in his own 'life, '" which for
Milder means primarily his spiritual, psychological, and vocational
life. The title essay takes its origin from Ishmael's account of
"the larger, darker, deeper part of Ahab," Melville's mythic
projection of his own feelings of emotional and ontological
disinheritance. How to live nobly in spiritual exile-to be godlike
in the perceptible absence of God-was a lifelong preoccupation for
Melville, who, in lieu of positive belief, transposed the drama of
his spiritual life to literature. Exiled Royalties explores the
ways in which Melville satisfied this impulse throughout his
forty-five year career, how it shaped the matter and manner of his
work, and how his writing, in turn, reflexively bore upon his
private life and upon the life of the nation.
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