Background
Young, Philip Pratt was born on May 26, 1918 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Roswell Philip and Katharine (Pratt) Young.
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The Private Melville demonstrates how great a role his profound sense of privacy played in Melville's life and work. Secrets he was careful never to reveal are unmasked by Philip Young. Privacy, as it appears to Melville here, is of three types. First are family matters the public had no business knowing about, such as the life story of a secret half-sister; next the story of the life of a cousin, model for the heroine of his incestuous novel, Pierre; and then the history of the woman's forebears. The second type concerns four Berkshire Tales that depend heavily on 'private jokes,' and thus have secret meaning that escaped the editors who printed them and continue to evade critics and scholars. The third kind deals with two 'fictions' so little understood that the meaning might as well be secret: a speech of Ahab's, which is called the 'spiritual climax' of Moby Dick; and Melville's very last fiction, Daniel Orme, a self-portrait in which he has gone pretty much unrecognized.
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Being the surprising true histories of some forgotten American women -- all beautiful, rich, and Loyalist -- whose lives were shaped by scandal and turned upside down by the War for Independence.
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Young, Philip Pratt was born on May 26, 1918 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Roswell Philip and Katharine (Pratt) Young.
Bachelor, Amherst College, 1940. Doctor of Philosophy, University Iowa, 1948. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Westminster College, 1970.
Instructor, Adjunct Professor, New York University, 1948-1953; associate professor, Kansas State University, Manhattan, 1953-1958; professor, Pennsylvania State University, Univeristy Park, 1959-1980; Evan Pugh Professor, Pennsylvania State University, Univeristy Park, 1980-1988; professor emeritus, Pennsylvania State University, Univeristy Park, 1988-1991. Fulbright lecturer, 1963-1964. Lecturer United States Information Agency, 1957.
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First lieutenant United States Army, 1942-1946.
Married Caroline Anderson (deceased 1967). 1 child Jeffrey Anderson (deceased 1988). Married Katherine Hambrecht.
1 child Rosalie.