...Josh Doty Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press 2022 bdoty@stmarytx.edu 3 Melville Josh Doty This year s publications offer an eclectic range of scholarship on Herman Melville, including new work on sexuality and a new biography. The smaller number of articles and books published...

...Peter Norberg 3 Melville Peter Norberg This year’s scholarship on Herman Melville is an intriguing mix of old and new. While some scholars continue to examine Melville’s deep- diving engagement with world literature, religion, and philosophy, oth- ers apply the latest critical trends...

...Jennifer Greiman American Literary Scholarship (2018) doi 10.1215/00659142-8118524 © 2020 by Duke University Press 3 Melville Jennifer Greiman In advance of the 2019 bicentennial of Herman Melville s birth, this year s abundance of new scholarship covers all aspects of his life and corpus...

...John Matteson Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Melville John Matteson is year marked the bicentennial of the birth of Herman Melville, and the large number of critical publications responding to the occasion comes as no surprise. is summary begins with a note on a special section...

...Peter Norberg © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 3 Melville Peter Norberg This year marks somewhat of a generational shift in Herman Melville criticism. Only one new monograph was published, a comparative study of Melville’s and Richard Henry Dana’s sea novels in the context...

...John Samson Duke University Press 2005 3 Melville John Samson Moby-Dick continues to be receive the most scrutiny, with this year’s publications including two books and a special issue of Leviathan. ‘‘Bar- tleby, the Scrivener’’ and Billy Budd, Sailor are also the focus...

...Dennis Berthold Duke University Press 2006 3  Melville Dennis Berthold Moby-Dick remains Melville’s most widely discussed work, but the poetry gains ground in one book on all the published poems and another dedicated to Clarel. Melville’s epic poem receives additional...

...Dennis Berthold Duke University Press 2008 3  Melville Dennis Berthold A monograph by Robert Milder, a study of the Kraken edition of Pierre by Hershel Parker and Brian Higgins, three essay collections, includ- ing Haskell Springer and Elizabeth Schultz’s pathbreaking...

...Dennis Berthold Duke University Press 2007 3  Melville Dennis Berthold The major event this year is Andrew Delbanco’s one-volume biography, a work that makes Melville accessible to a wide audience and should spur greater recognition of his accomplishments. Among other...

...John Samson © 2000 Duke University Press 2000 3 Melville John Samson The year saw relatively little published on Melville s early works, his short fiction, and his late works and poetry. Typee, Moby-Dick, and Pierre were the subjects of fine essays and book chapters, but much of the best...

...John Samson Duke University Press 2002 3 Melville John Samson It was an unbalanced year for Melville studies, with the early work and the late writings receiving virtually no critical attention and Moby-Dick the subject of a whale-sized body of criticism, including five very...

...John Samson Duke University Press 2003 3 Melville John Samson Though the early works, the short stories, and The ConŽdence-Man were largely ignored by critics this year, Moby-Dick continued to receive its usual large body of criticism, and Pierre, ‘‘ Bartleby , the Scrivener...

...John Samson Duke University Press 2004 3 Melville John Samson This year sees the publication of several book-length projects devoted to Melville: biography, criticism, and a collection of new essays on Billy Budd. Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies (4, i–ii...

...John Samson © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 3 Melville John Samson In an unusual year for Melville studies, Moby-Dick and Pierre received relatively little critical treatment, while Typee, the short stories—par- ticularly ‘‘Bartleby, the Scrivenerand the poetry were...

...Dennis Berthold Duke University Press 2009 3  Melville Dennis Berthold For once a bumper crop of articles on Melville’s poetry distinguishes the year’s work as a special issue of Leviathan brings together critics versed in theory and cultural studies to study the genre...

...Dennis Berthold Duke University Press 2010 3  Melville Dennis Berthold This year’s diverse array of Melville scholarship dictates increased selec- tivity and careful categorization. Even after omitting some general stud- ies with a section on Melville, there remain five books...

...Christopher Sten Duke University Press 2011 3 Melville Christopher Sten This was a good year for extending the case for Herman Melville’s transnationalism, as an author and subject of interest among inter- national scholars, and for celebrating the long-awaited publication...

...Peter Norberg © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 3 Melville Peter Norberg The year’s scholarship on Herman Melville is refreshingly focused and succinct. Interest remains strong in new theoretical and interdisciplin- ary approaches to his work, and scholars interested...