Melville, Mumford, and Modernity with Aaron Sachs
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Hermitics - Who Did Herman Melville Write?
Herman Melville is this absolute canonical figure in literature. And yet there is this strange non appreciation of him. Alexander von Humboldt, who was a scientific explorer from the early 19th century,. I would say influenced Melville at least to some extent. Margaret Meads just as the great anthropologist who famously, her first book was coming of age in Samoa.
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