Greetings from the prairie, Dear Subscriber! Here on Substack I still hope eventually to introduce the matter of another blog experiment, Dragooned, which I began way back in June 2011—just a couple of months before I restarted Melvilliana on Blogger. I did some really original ditch-digging work over there on Dragooned that deserves another look. As ever, I can’t help being fascinated by the marvelously Melvillean dialogues (ostensibly “Written on the Prairie") that take place in each installment of the 1851-1853 magazine series, “Scenes Beyond the Western Border,” revised and reprinted from the
Lacordaire in Clarel
Lacordaire in Clarel
Lacordaire in Clarel
Greetings from the prairie, Dear Subscriber! Here on Substack I still hope eventually to introduce the matter of another blog experiment, Dragooned, which I began way back in June 2011—just a couple of months before I restarted Melvilliana on Blogger. I did some really original ditch-digging work over there on Dragooned that deserves another look. As ever, I can’t help being fascinated by the marvelously Melvillean dialogues (ostensibly “Written on the Prairie") that take place in each installment of the 1851-1853 magazine series, “Scenes Beyond the Western Border,” revised and reprinted from the