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Up from the depths : Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and rediscovery in dark times

Sachs, Aaron (Aaron Jacob), author

2022

Overview

'Up from the Depths' tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history - the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895-1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers, Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives, work, and troubled times - and their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis. The author of 'Moby-Dick' was largely forgotten for several decades after his death, but Mumford helped spearhead Melville's revival in the aftermath of World War I and the 1918-1919 flu pandemic, when American culture needed a forebear with a suitably dark vision.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. / Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990. / Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Criticism and interpretation History. / Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Appreciation. / Authors, American 19th century Biography. / Critics United States Biography. / Biography.
• ISBN: 9780691215419

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