Exiled Royalties

Exiled Royalties is a literary/biographical study of the course of Melville''s career from his experience in Polynesia through his retirement from the New York Custom House and his composition of three late volumes of poetry and Billy Budd, Sailor. Conceived separately but narratively and thematically intertwined, the ten essays in the book are rooted in a belief that "Melville''s work," as Charle...