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Group 4Group 4刘念刘兰兰叶红马玲张汝琴黄再珊Herman Herman MelvilleMelville Herman MelvilleHis life: P73 New York, 1819 middle-class family background father -- bankrupt -- mad, died in 1832 dropped out of school; went to work – 1839, seaman – whalingGeneral Introduction?Herman Melville (1819 –1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.?Although Melville has been regarded throughout most of the twentieth century as one of America's most powerful literary artists, particularly for his masterpiece Moby-Dick, he was largely unrecognized in his ?Various jobs: bank clerk; clerk in a cap and fur store; farmhand; schoolteacher, sailor, whaler?Significant Events?Arrowhead?Clerk in New York Custom house for the last 20 years of his life?Death in 1891Marriage?1847?Elizabeth Shaw (daughter of Chief Justice of Boston )?Transferred him from a world wonder into respectable adventurer?Extravagant lifestyle?Writing for moneFeatures?Earlier Works— drawing upon his sea experiences— black and white?Later Works— Reconciliation between man and God — living by the rules of this worldWorks?Fiction?Israel Potter?Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. 2 (of 2)?Thither, Vol. I (of 2)?Typee?Omoo?Mardi: and A Voyage ?Moby Dick?Redburn: His First Voyage?The Confidence Man?White Jacket?Poetry Books?John Marr and Other Poems?Short Stories?Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street?I and My Chimney?The Lightning Rod Man?The Piazza?Benito Cereno?The Encantadas; or, Enchanted Isles?The Bell-Tower?Poetry?A Canticle?A Dirge for McPherson ?A Grave near Petersburg, Virginia?America?An Epitaph?Apathy And Enthusiasm?At the Cannon's Mouth?Aurora-Borealis?Battle of Stone River, Tennessee?Chattanooga?Donnellson?Dupont's Round Fight?Falstaff's Lament Over Prince Hal e Henry V?Gettysburg?Gold in the Mountain?Immolated?In The Old Farm-house?In the Pauper's Turnip-Field?In the Turret?Inscription for Graves?Inscription For Marye's Heights?Jack Roy?Lee in the CapitolBackMoby Di