Powell Papers

A Confidence Man Among the Anglo-American Literati

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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This uses a few familiar documents and a mass of freshly discovered material (including a devastating portrait of Thomas Powell in a serialized novel) to unfold a captivating tale of skullduggery through the words of great artists and then-admired journalists alike.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-06-30
Mått:154 x 231 x 27 mm
Vikt:600 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:350
Förlag:Northwestern University Press
ISBN:9780810127036

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Hershel Parker is the H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware. He is co-editor with Harrison Hayford of the landmark Norton Critical Edition of Moby-Dick (1967 and 2001) and Associate General Editor of The Writings of Herman Melville. Parker's landmark 1996 two volume Herman Melville: A Biography is generally regarded as an outstanding exemplar of American literary biography.[citation needed] Parker is an advocate of traditional methods of literary research, which emphasize access to original materials, encourage deliberate study of chronology, and examine the relationship between a literary work and the creative genius of its author.