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The Civil War of Herman Melville (Hardcover, New)
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The Civil War of Herman Melville (Hardcover, New)
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The culmination of more than a decade of research, Stanton Garner's
magisterial study reveals the previously little-known world of one
of America's greatest writers during its most devastating era -
that of the Civil War. Contrary to popular belief, Garner contends,
Melville was not intellectually and emotionally detached from the
war. In actuality, Melville brooded over the war's enormous
brutality and destructive power. At the same time, his passion for
writing, which had suffered greatly in the wake of his grand
failures of the 1850s, revived. With renewed purpose, Melville saw
an opportunity to establish himself as the prophet-poet of
rededicated America rising phoenix-like the ashes of destruction.
The vehicle for this ambitious enterprise was ""Battle-Pieces"", an
epically conceived book of poems that chronicles the war from John
Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry through Lincoln's assassination.
Despite its innovative style and powerful imagery, Melville's epic
statement about the war was little noticed by a weary and
unreceptive readership trying to move beyond the war's painful
memories. Drawing upon previously unknown or neglected archival
sources, Garner places Melville's experience within the larger
contexts of his extended family, social circles, political beliefs,
travels and reading. He establishes Melville's position in the rift
among major Northern writers in which Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell
and Whittier were on one side and Melville, Hawthorne, and - to
some extent - Whitman were on the other. By delving into the
complexities and apparent contradictions of Melville's personal
life, Garner reveals why a man who was diametrically opposed to
slavery, refused to side with the abolitionists and maintained the
anti-administration attitude predominant in his Democratic family,
while supporting the Union war effort.
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