Israel Potter Special Trade Edition: His Fifty Years of Exile, Volume Eight (The Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melvile) - Softcover

Melville, Herman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810115913 ISBN 13: 9780810115910

Verlag: Northwestern University Press, 1998

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Book by Melville Herman

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Unique among Melville's works, Israel Potter was the author's only historical novel, presuming to offer the life history of Revolutionary War figure Israel Potter--based on Potter's own obscure narrative Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter--and featuring characters such as Benjamin Franklin and Ethan Allen. In offering the manuscript to his publisher, Melville assured him, "I engage that the story shall contain nothing of any sort to shock the fastidious. There will be very little reflective writing in it; nothing weighty. It is adventure." This came as a relief, for his previous novel, Pierre, had shocked readers and brought down universal castigation. This edition is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America).

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Melville's eighth book was begun as a simple rewrite of an obscure little narrative entitled Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter, in which Israel tells the story of his sad fall from Revolutionary hero to London peddler. Following its opening chapter Melville's novel retells that tale, with close adherence to the language and events of the Life, and then, shaking free of the original narrative, alternately moves between invented episodes and historical sources unrelated to the Life. Israel Potter is unique among Melville's books. It is the only one to be offered in the guise of literal biography, the tale presuming to offer an accurate life history of the man Israel Potter who did in fact fight at Bunker Hill. It is also Melville's only historical novel: it presents famous men of the American Revolution - Benjamin Franklin, John Paul Jones, Ethan Allen, and others - in situations that are a matter of historical record.

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• Verlag: Northwestern University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0810115913
• ISBN 13: 9780810115910
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Herausgeber: Hayford Harrison, Parker Hershel, Tanselle G. Thomas