The Melville-Hawthorne Connection: A Study of the Literary Friendship

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This book offers the first in-depth examination of the friendship between the authors and their literary affinities. Hawthorne’s influence upon Moby-Dick is weighed, as is the probability of Melville’s influence upon Hawthorne. This was a friendship whose true basis - beyond an almost instantaneous mutual affinity and admiration for each other - was intellectual ideas and literary craft, and the conversations between the two hewed mostly to philosophical and spiritual rumination as well as to those matters that concern writers most: craft and publishing.