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Herman Melville

Bibliography

 

Biographies and Biographical Information

 

    • Allen, Gay Wilson. Melville and His World. New York: The Viking Press, 1971.

 

    • Arvin, Newton. Herman Melville. New York: William Sloane Associates, 1950.

 

    • Hillway, Tyrus. Herman Melville. New York: Twayne, 1963.

 

    • Howard, Leon. Herman Melville: A Biography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951.

 

    • Leyda, Jay. The Melville Log: A Documentary Life of Herman Melville, 1819-1891, 2 vols. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951. Reprinted, "With a New Supplementary Chapter," 2 vols. New York: Gordian Press, 1969.

 

    • Mayoux, Jean-Jacques. Melville. Translated by John Ashbery. New York: Grove Press, 1960.

 

    • Metcalfe, Eleanor Melville. Herman Melville: Cycle and Epicycle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953.

 

    • Miller, Edwin Haviland. Melville. New York: Braziller, 1975.

 

    • Mumford, Lewis. Herman Melville: A Study of His Life and Vision. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1929; London: Jonathan Cape, 1929. Reissued in a revised edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1963.

 

    • Olson, Charles. Call Me Ishmael. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 [1947].

 

    • Robertson-Lorant, Laurie. Melville: A Biography. (Hardcover) New York, NY: Clarkson Potter, 1993. (Paperback) Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.

 

    • Rosenberry, Edward H. Melville. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979.

 

    • Sealts, Merton M., Jr. The Early Lives of Melville: Nineteenth-Century Biographical Sketches and Their Authors. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1974.

 

  • Winslow, Richard E., III. "New Reviews Trace Melville's Reputation." In Melville Society Extracts, no. 89 (June 1992), pp. 7-12.

Letters, Journals, and Other Personal Materials

 

    • Davis, Merrell R. and Gilman, William H., eds. The Letters of Herman Melville. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960.
Page from a letter by Melville

 

    • Horsford, Howard C., ed. Journal of a Visit to Europe and the Levant, October 11, 1856--May 6, 1857, by Herman Melville. Princeton University Press, 1955.

 

    • Horth, Lynn. "Letters Lost Letters Found: A Progress Report on Melville's Correspondence" in Melville Society Extracts, no. 81 (May 1990): 1-8.

 

    • Metcalfe, Eleanor Melville, ed. Journal of a Visit to London and the Continent by Herman Melville, 1849--1850. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1948.

 

  • Minnigerode, Meade. Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography. New York: Brick Row Book Shop, 1922.

Book-length Critical Studies

 

    • Adler, Joyce Sparer. War in Melville's Imagination. New York: New York University Press, 1981.

 

    • Bickman, Martin. American Romantic Psychology. Emerson, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville. Dallas, Texas: Spring Publications Inc, 1988.

 

    • Bryant, John, ed. A Companion to Melville Studies. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.

 

    • Chase, Richard. Herman Melville: A Critical Study. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1949.

 

    • Chase, Richard, ed. Melville: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice-Hall, 1962.

 

    • Garner, Stanton. The Civil War World of Herman Melville. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993.

 

    • Griffin, Martin. Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865-1900. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 2009.

 

    • Guetti, James. The Limits of Metaphor. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967.

 

    • Hayford, Harrison. Melville's "Monody": Really for Hawthorne?. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1990.

 

    • Levine, Robert S. & Samuel Otter (eds). Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation. Chapel Hill, NC: U of North Carolina P, 2008.

 

    • Miller, James E., Jr. A Reader's Guide to Herman Melville. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (Noonday ser.), 1962.

 

    • Parker, Hershel. Melville: The Making of the Poet. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2008.

 

    • Potter, William. Melville's Clarel and the Intersympathy of Creeds. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2004.

 

    • Robillard, Douglas J. Melville and the Visual Arts. Ionian Form, Venetian Tint. Kent, Ohio, and London, England: The Kent State University Press, 1997.

 

    • Shurr, William H. The Mystery of Iniquity: Melville as Poet, 1857-1891. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1951.

 

    • Sealts, Merton M, Jr. Melville's Reading. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.

 

  • Stein, William Bysshe. The Poetry of Melville's Late Years: Time, History, Myth, and Religion. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1970.

Critical Articles on Melville's Poetry

 

 
  • Barrett, Laurence. "The Differences in Melville's Poetry" in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 70 (September 1955): 606-23.

 

  • Berlind, Bruce. "Notes on Melville's Shorter Poems" in Hopkins Review, 3 (1950): 24-35.

 

  • Berthold, Dennis. "'The Italian Turn of Thought': Risorgimento Politics in Clarel" in Nineteenth-Century Literature (9:3 (2004): 340-71.

 

  • Bridgeman, Richard. "Melville's Rose." in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 8 (1966): 235-44.

 

  • Brodwin, Stanley. "Herman Melville's Clarel: An Existential Gospel" in PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 86 (1971): 375-387.

 

  • Cannon, Agnes D. "Melville's Concept of Poet and Poetry" in: Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, vol. 31, No. 4, Winter 1975: 315-39.

 

  • Cappucci, Paul R. "Down from the Crow's Nest: Herman Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" in War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 17:1-2 (2005): 162-69.

 

  • Charvat, William, "Melville's Income." In American Literature, 15 (1943), pp. 251-61.

 

  • Cody, David. "'So, then, Solidity's a crust': Melville's 'The Apparition' and the Explosion of the Petersburg Mine" in Melville Society Extracts, no. 70 (September 1989), I: 4-8.

 

  • Cohen, Hennig. "Melville's Copy of Broughton's Popular Poetry of the Hindoos" in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 61 (1967): 266-67.

 

  • "Melville and Diogenes the Cynic" in Melville "Among the Nations" (Sanford E. Marovitz & A. C. Christodoulou, eds). Kent, OH: Kent State UP (2001): 131-39.

 

  • Day, Frank L. "Melville and Sherman March to the Sea" in American Notes and Queries, 2 (1964): 134-36.

 

  • Devries, David & Hugh Egan. "'Entangled Rhyme': A Dialogic Reading of Melville's Battle-Pieces" in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 9:3 (2007): 17-33.

 

  • Dillingham, William B. "'Neither Believer Nor Infidel': Themes of Melville's Poetry" in Personalist, 46 (1965): 501-16.

 

  • Djelal, Juana Celia. "Melville's Poetic Compass" in CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English Association 63:1 (2000): 61-70.

 

  • Donahue, Jane. "Melville's Classicism: Law and Order in his Poetry" in Papers on Language and Literature, 5 (1969): 63-72.

 

  • Dowling, Paul M. "Robert E. Lee and Melville's Politics in Battle-Pieces and Aspects of War" in Melville Society Extracts 128 (2005): 18-23.

 

  • Duggan, Robert A., Jr. "'Sleep No More' Again: Melville's Rewriting of Book X of Wordsworth's Prelude" in Romanticism on the Net: An Electronic Journal Devoted to Romantic Studies 38-39 (2005) 51 paragraphs(Electronic publication.).

 

  • Evans, Lyon, Jr. "The Significance of Melville's Greece Poems in His Late World" in Melville "Among the Nations" (Sanford E. Marovitz & A. C. Christodoulou, eds). Kent, OH: Kent State UP (2001): 119-28.

 

  • Fogle, Richard Harter. "Melville and the Civil War" in Tulane Studies in English, 9 (1959): 61-89.

 

  • Fogle, Richard Harter, "Melville's Poetry" in Tulane Studies in English, 12 (1962): 81-86.

 

  • "The Themes of Melville's Later Poetry" in Tulane Studies in English, 11 (1961): 65-86.

 

  • Garner, Stanton. "Herman Melville and the Trunkmaker" in Notes and Queries, 26 (August 1979): 307-8.

 

  • Gidmark, Jill B. "Clarel and Omeros, 'Odes' with a Grecian Turn: An Intercultural Reading" in Melville "Among the Nations" (Sanford E. Marovitz & A. C. Christodoulou, eds). Kent, OH: Kent State UP (2001): 549-57.

 

  • Giordano, Matthew. "Public Privacy: Melville's Coterie Authorship in John Marr and Other Sailors" in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 9:3 (2007): 65-78.

 

  • Gohdes, Clarence, "Melville's Friend 'Toby.'" In Modern Language Notes 59 (January 1944), pp. 52-55.

 

  • Grey, Robin. "Annotations on Civil War: Melville's Battle-Pieces and Milton's War in Heaven" in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 4:1-2 (2002): 51-70.

 

  • Hand, Harry E. "'And War Be Done': Battle-Pieces and Other Civil War Poetry of Herman Melville" in Journal of Human Relations, 11 (1963): 326-40.

 

  • Hibler, David J. "Drum-Taps and Battle- Pieces: Melville and Whitman on the Civil War" in Personalist, 50 (1969): 130-47.

 

  • Hitt, Ralph E. "Melville's Poems of Civil War Controversy" in Studies in the Literary Imagination, 2 (1969): 57-68.

 

  • Hsu, Hsuan. "War, Ekphrasis, and Elliptical Form in Melville's Battle-Pieces" in Nineteenth Century Studies 16 (2002): 51-71.

 

  • Jalal, Mustafa. "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War The Novelist as Poet: A Study in the Dramatic Poetry of Herman Melville" in American Studies International 39:2 (2001): 71-85.

 

  • Lee, Maurice S. "Writing through the War: Melville and Dickinson after the Renaissance" in PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 115:5 (2000): 1124-28.

 

  • Leyda, Jay, "The Army of the Potomac Entertains a Poet." In Twice a Year (1948), pp. 259-72.

 

  • Lindeman, Jack. "Herman Melville's Civil War" In Modern Age, 9 (1965): 387-98.

 

  • Madison, Robert D. "Melville's Sherman Poems: A Problem in Source Study" in Melville Society Extracts, no. 78 (September 1989): 8-11.

 

  • Madison, Karen Lentz. "Tennyson's Maritime Influence on Melville's John Marr: An Idyll Speculation" in This Watery World: Humans and the Sea (Vartan P. Messier & Nandita Batra, eds.). Mayagüez, Puerto Rico: College English Association-Caribbean Chapter (2007): 93-104.

 

  • Madison, Robert D. "Melville's Haglets" in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 5:2 (2003): 79-83.

 

  • Martin, Lawrence H., Jr. "Melville and Christianity: The Late Poems" in Massachusetts Studies in English, 2 (1969): 11-18.

 

  • Meldrum, Barbara. "Melville on War" in Research Studies of the State College of Washington, 37 (1969): 130-38.

 

  • Milder, Robert. "The Rhetoric of Melville's Battle- Pieces" in Nineteenth-Century Literature, 44 (September 1989): 173-200.

 

  • Montague, Gene B. "Melville's Battle-Pieces" in University of Texas Studies in English, 35 (1956): 106-15.

 

  • Newton, Arvin. "Melville's Shorter Poems" in Partisan Review, vol. 16 (October 1949): 1034-46.

 

  • Renker, Elizabeth. "Melville's Poetic Singe" in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 2:2 (2000): 13-31.

 

  • Renker, Elizabeth & Douglas Robillard (eds). Melville the Poet (Special issue) Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 9:3 (2007).

 

  • Robillard, Douglas. "Melville's 'Pale Ravener of Horrible Meat'" in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 8:2 (2006): 85.

 

  • Rosenberg, Warren. "Poem as Palm: Polynesia and Melville's Turn to Poetry" in 'Whole Oceans Away': Melville and the Pacific (Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley & Christopher Sten eds). Kent, OH: Kent State UP (2007): 239-52.

 

  • Russo, John Paul. "The Crowd in Melville's Battle-Pieces" in Rivista di Studi Vittoriani 9:5 (1) (2000): 123-47.

 

  • Shaw, Richard O. "The Civil War Poems of Herman Melville" in Lincoln Herald (Harrogate, TN), 68 (1966): 44-49.

 

  • Shawcross, John T. "'Too Intellectual a Poet Ever to Be Popular': Herman Melville and the Miltonic Dimension of Clarel in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 4:1-2 (2002): 71-90.

 

  • Short, Bryan C. "Form as Vision in Herman Melville's Clarel" in American Literature, vol. 50, No. 4 (1979): 553-569.

 

  • Shulman, Robert. "Melville's 'Timoleon': From Plutarch to the Early Stages of Billy Budd" in Comparative Literature, 19 (1967): 351-61.

 

  • Shurr, William H. "Melville's Poems: The Late Agenda" in A Companion to Melville Studies (John Bryant, ed.). New York: Greenwood Press, 1986: 351-74.

 

  • Spiller, Robert E. "Melville: Our First Tragic Poet" in Saturday Review of Literature, 33 (November 25, 1950): 24-25.

 

  • Stein, William Bysshe. "Melville's Poetry: Its Symbols of Individuation" in Literature and Psychology, 7 (1959): 21-26.

 

  • "Melville's Poetry: Two Rising Notes" in Emerson Society Quarterly, 27 (1966): 10-13.

 

  • "The Old Man and the Triple Goddess: Melville's 'The Haglets'" in Journal of English Literary History, 25 (1958): 43-59.

 

  • Sutton, Walter. "Melville's 'Pleasure Party' and the Art of Concealment" in Philological Quarterly, 30 (1951): 316-27.

 

  • Thompson, Corey Evan. "Melville's 'Monody': Possibly for Malcolm?" in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 19:2 (2006): 39-44.

 

  • Urban, David. "'Rousing Motions' and the Silence of God: Scripture and Immediate Revelation in Samson Agonistes and Clarel" in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 4:1-2 (2002): 91-111.

 

  • Warren, Robert Penn. "Melville's Poems" in Southern Review, 3 (1967): 799-855.

 

  • Warren, Robert Penn. "Melville the Poet" in The Kenyon Review 8 (Spring 1946): 208-23.

 

  • Williams, Megan. "'Sounding the Wilderness': Representations of the Heroic in Herman Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of War" in Texas Studies in Literature and Language 45:2 (2003): 141-72.

 
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