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Melville in Love

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2018

A new account of Herman Melville and the writing of Moby-Dick, based on fresh archival research, which reveals that the anarchic spirit animating Melville's canonical work was inspired by his great love affair with a shockingly unconventional married woman. Herman Melville's epic novel, Moby-Dick, was a spectacular failure when it was published in 1851, effectively ending its author's rise to literary fame. Because he was neglected by academics for so long, and because he made little effort to preserve his legacy, we know very little about Melville, and even less about what he called his "wicked book." Scholars still puzzle over what drove Melville to invent Captain Ahab's mad pursuit of the great white whale. In Melville in Love Pulitzer Prize-finalist Michael Shelden sheds light on this literary mystery to tell a story of Melville's passionate, obsessive, and clandestine affair with a married woman named Sarah Morewood, whose libertine impulses encouraged and sustained Melville's own

Melville in Love is a Documentary movie released in 2018. It has a runtime of 53 min. Critics and viewers have rated it no reviews, with an IMDb score of 0.0..

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Director
Seth Newton
Stars
Michael Shelden, Peter Bergman
Also starring Peter Bergman