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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 192–195.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Jennifer Gurley © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics . By Larry J. Reynolds. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2008. xix, 313 pp. $55.00. The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass...
View articletitled, Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics; The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, <span class="search-highlight">Melville</span>, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture; Literature and Moral Reform: <span class="search-highlight">Melville</span> and the Discipline of Reading; Herman <span class="search-highlight">Melville</span> and the American Calling: The Fiction after “Moby-Dick,” 1851–1857
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Melville: The Making of the Poet; Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 623–625.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Hugh Egan © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Melville: The Making of the Poet . By Hershel Parker. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press. 2008. x, 238 pp. $32.95. Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation . Ed. Robert S. Levine and Samuel Otter. Chapel...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Melville</span>: The Making of the Poet; Frederick Douglass and Herman <span class="search-highlight">Melville</span>: Essays in Relation
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Melville in the Customhouse Attic
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 305–332.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Christopher Hager In a standard narrative of Herman Melville's career, the author's initial tendency toward cultural nationalism—most famously displayed in his 1850 essay “Hawthorne and His Mosses”—gave way during the early 1850s to political misgivings and increasingly dark novels. The Democratic...
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Enforcement on a Grand Scale: Fugitive Intelligence and the Literary Tactics of Douglass and Melville
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 217–246.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Jeffrey Hole As works which had similarly evoked slave-ship revolt as topics for their prose fictions in the mid-1850s, Douglass’s The Heroic Slave and Melville’s Benito Cereno , Hole’s essay argues, offer noticeably distinct aesthetic, rhetorical, and stylistic presentations of slave rebellion...
View articletitled, Enforcement on a Grand Scale: Fugitive Intelligence and the Literary Tactics of Douglass and <span class="search-highlight">Melville</span>
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Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 643–644.
Published: 01 September 2002
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Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival. By Clare L.
Spark. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2001. x, 730 pp. $55.00.
In Hunting Captain Ahab, Clare Spark replicates Ahab’s obsession as she pur-
sues the psychology and politics behind the Melville revival of the early...
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“Victory of LAW”: Melville and Reconstruction
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2003
...Deak Nabers Duke University Press 2003 Deak ‘‘Victory of LAW Melville and Reconstruction
Nabers
6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 5 of 252 In his famous ‘‘Supplement’’ to Battle-Pieces...
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Melville and the Architecture of Antebellum Masculinity
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 59–87.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Sarah Wilson Duke University Press 2004 Sarah Melville and the Architecture of
Wilson Antebellum Masculinity
The sphere of Herman Melville’s work has, not
unreasonably, been understood as masculine.1 Iusesphere advisedly
here, for it alludes...
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Monumental Melville: The Formation of a Literary Career; So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death; To Walt Whitman, America
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 416–418.
Published: 01 June 2005
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for other readers, and both constitute labors of love for the authors they
engage.
Nina Baym, University of Illinois at Urbana
Monumental Melville: The Formation of a Literary Career. By Edgar A. Dryden.
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 230 pp. $49.50.
So...
View articletitled, Monumental <span class="search-highlight">Melville</span>: The Formation of a Literary Career; So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death; To Walt Whitman, America
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American Palestine: Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 637–639.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman. Obsession with
‘‘origins’’ and ‘‘transcendental wordplay’’ among such a motley group compli-
cates our very definitions of transcendentalism and romanticism. West con-
siders Thoreau ‘‘a witty moralist, satirist, and social critic and he declares...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 627–629.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman . By Les Harrison. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. xxv, 272 pp. $42.50. From Broadway to Cleveland: A History of the Hanna Theatre . By John Vacha. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2007. xi...
View articletitled, Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States; The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, <span class="search-highlight">Melville</span>, Stowe, and Whitman; From Broadway to Cleveland: A History of the Hanna Theatre
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for article titled, Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States; The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, <span class="search-highlight">Melville</span>, Stowe, and Whitman; From Broadway to Cleveland: A History of the Hanna Theatre
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 836–838.
Published: 01 December 2008
...: Nineteenth-Century Sea Narratives and American Identity . By Robin Miskolcze. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2008. xxii, 220 pp. $45.00. “Whole Oceans Away”: Melville and the Pacific . Ed. Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2007. xxi, 350 pp. $65.00...
View articletitled, The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives; Women and Children First: Nineteenth-Century Sea Narratives and American Identity; “Whole Oceans Away”: <span class="search-highlight">Melville</span> and the Pacific
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for article titled, The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives; Women and Children First: Nineteenth-Century Sea Narratives and American Identity; “Whole Oceans Away”: <span class="search-highlight">Melville</span> and the Pacific
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 404–407.
Published: 01 June 2013
... and Culture . By Fenton Elizabeth . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . xi, 178 pp. $65.00 . Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. DuBois . By Stewart Carole Lynn . Albuquerque : Univ. of New Mexico...
View articletitled, Missionary Positions: Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century US Literature and Culture Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman <span class="search-highlight">Melville</span>, and W. E. B. DuBois
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for article titled, Missionary Positions: Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century US Literature and Culture Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman <span class="search-highlight">Melville</span>, and W. E. B. DuBois
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“A Bold and Hardy Race of Men”: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen Writing the Seaman's Tale in Law and Literature: Dana, Melville, and Justice Story
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 607–609.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Wyn Kelley “A Bold and Hardy Race of Men”: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen . By Schell Jennifer . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2013 . xiv , 262 pp. Cloth, $80.00 ; paper, $28.95 . Writing the Seaman's Tale in Law and Literature: Dana, Melville...
View articletitled, “A Bold and Hardy Race of Men”: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen Writing the Seaman's Tale in Law and Literature: Dana, <span class="search-highlight">Melville</span>, and Justice Story
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Antebellum Apathy: A Study of Indifference in Melville
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 529–556.
Published: 01 September 2017
... culture normalized the possession and display of feelings. The antebellum writings of author Herman Melville are hardly alone in demonstrating apathy’s hermeneutic and aesthetic uses; they nevertheless suggest a concentrated encounter with apathy, given how the author thematically foregrounds unfeeling...
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The Cod and the Whale: Melville in the Time of Extinction
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 851–879.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., and the environmental humanities—and considering cultural artifacts from Smith’s tracts and Herman Melville’s fiction to Cheryl Savageau’s poetry and the underwater sculpture of Jason deCaires Taylor—the essay reads the commodification and consumption of these creatures as constitutive elements of an extinction...
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American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville The Official World
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Adam Frank American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville . By Paul Hurh . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2015 . xi, 298 pp. Cloth, $60.00 ; paper, $29.95 ; e-book available. The Official World . By Mark Seltzer . Durham, NC : Duke Univ...
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The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 423–424.
Published: 01 June 2000
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Melville’s fiction in light of postcolonial theories, primarily Homi Bhaba’s re-
flections on mimicry. Focusing on Typee, Moby-Dick, and ‘‘Benito Cereno
Sanborn argues that Melville treated cannibalism not as a collection of em...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 842–844.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Sean McCann © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 In the Company of Books: Literature and Its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century America . By Sarah Wadsworth. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2006. viii, 278 pp. Paper, $24.95. Tolerable Entertainment: Herman Melville...
View articletitled, In the Company of Books: Literature and Its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century America; Tolerable Entertainment: Herman <span class="search-highlight">Melville</span> and Professionalism in Antebellum New York; Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875–1910
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for article titled, In the Company of Books: Literature and Its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century America; Tolerable Entertainment: Herman <span class="search-highlight">Melville</span> and Professionalism in Antebellum New York; Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875–1910
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Three American Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 668–670.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Faith Barrett Three American Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville . By Spengemann William C. . Notre Dame, Ind. : Univ. of Notre Dame Press . 2010 . xv, 226 pp. Paper, $28.00 . Winds of Will: Emily Dickinson and the Sovereignty of Democratic Thought...
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The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion Melville and the Idea of Blackness: Race and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century America
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Sean X. Goudie The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion . By Gruesser John Cullen . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2012 . viii, 159 pp. Cloth , $59.95 ; paper, $22.95 ; e-book, $22.95 . Melville and the Idea...
View articletitled, The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion <span class="search-highlight">Melville</span> and the Idea of Blackness: Race and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century America
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