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Melville's friendship and admiration of Nathaniel Hawthorne is widely believed among scholars to be a major influence and catalyst which fueled Melville's decision to depart from his original conception of Moby-Dick as an adventure novel (such as his earlier successful novels, Typee , Redburn
- Connie Townley
- 2014
Melville’s Moby Dick might be compared, most immediately, to the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with whom Melville struck up a friendship during the composition of the novel. Hawthorne was perhaps the most famous prose writer in the United States at the time, the author of poems and short stories like “Young Goodman Brown,” and his The ...
Feb 13, 2019 · Melville’s ardor was most acute during the period of writing Moby-Dick, which he dedicated to Hawthorne. Printed immediately after the title page was “In Token of My Admiration for his Genius, This Book is Inscribed to Nathanial [sic] Hawthorne.”. Art by Matt Kish from Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page.
The friendship of Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne has long fascinated critics and biographers of both authors, as well as anyone interested in the history of American literature and the genesis of one of its supreme masterworks, Moby-Dick, dedicated to Hawthorne as a token of Melville's admiration for the older writer's "genius." The ...
Feb 26, 2023 · Dedicating his masterpiece Moby-Dick to Hawthorne, Melville reveals both his admiration and affection for Hawthorne as his inspirational mentor and beloved friend.
- Rex Krajewski
- 2018
In the forty years between Moby-Dick’s publication in 1851 and Melville’s death in 1891, only one British and one American edition were published. Even while writing Moby-Dick Melville experienced deep frustration. He wrote to Nathaniel Hawthorne, “What I feel most moved to write, that is banned,—it will not pay.
to compare the development of Mardi with that of Moby-Dick is to deny Melville the benefit of artistic development as he labored on what is considered his greatest work. The fact that a "Mardi" did precede Moby-Dick without Hawthorne as a catalyst demonstrates the course that Melville's art was taking.
