...R. E. Watters Howard P. Vincent. Chicago: Pakcard and Company, 1947. Pp. xxii + 502. $4.00. (Also as Vol. XIV of complete Works of Herman Melville . Pp. xxii + 548.) Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Dorothy Richardson 113 undefined...

...Herbert S. Donow Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 HERMAN MELVILLE AND THE CRAFT OF FICTION By HERBERT S. DONOW Whatever else Melville may have been, he was a novelist only in the vaguest sense of that word. Indeed, “Melville never...

... been forgotten.” B. BERNARDCOHEN Wayne University Herman Melville: A Critical Study. By RICHARDCHASE. New York: Mac- millan Company, 1949. Pp. xiii + 305. $4.50. Professor Chase’s book does at least three things...

...Harrison Hayford; Merrell Davis Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 ∗ The authors of the present study acknowledge the friendly coöperation of Jay Leyda who discovered and generously shared with the some of its important materials. HERMAN MELVILLE AS OFFICE...

...Harrison Hayford; Merrell Davis Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 HERMAN MELVILLE AS OFFICE-SEEKER (PART TWO) By HARRISONHAYFORD and MERRELLDAVIS I11 After his...

...E. H. Eby Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 HERMAN MELVILLE’S “TARTARUS OF MAIDS” By E. H. EBY Scholars have been investigating of late the literary methods of Herman Melville, the nature and extent of his ideas, but have over...

...Peter Coviello Abstract This essay takes up two conceptual formations of great consequence to Herman Melville: “religion” and “literature.” Part of what binds them so tightly for Melville is a set of transformative upheavals in liberal culture that we have lately come to know by a different name...

... the given name was not Hiram. At any rate, whoever was responsible for the weird misnomer, it is highly sympto- matic of the state of knowledge about Herman Melville at the time of his death. It is quite true that a greater number of periodicals than has been realized gave some sort of attention...

...A. Grove Day Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 HAWAIIAN ECHOES IN MELVILLE’S MARDI By A. GROVEDAY A surprisingly large number of allusions to the Hawaiian Islands and Hawaiian customs can be found in Herman Melville’s Mar& if we...

...Leon Howard Copyright 1940 by University of Washington Press 1940 MELVILLE’S STRUGGLE WITH THE ANGEL By LEONHOWARD The common denominator of most-if not all-critical discus- sions of Herman Melville is their dependence upon the logical fal- lacy...

...-changing nationalist agenda. Constituting Amem’cans juxtaposes such discourse with the work of Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Harriet Wilson, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Gertrude Stein to reveal the diversity of literary engagement with the rhetoric of national unity. For each writer, Wald...

...J. J. Boies Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 THE WHALE WITHOUT EPILOGUE By J. J. BOIES Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick was first published by Richard Bentley in London in a three-volume edition entitled The Whale ( 1851...

.... -Absolom Jones and Richard Allen, Negro leaders, 1794. Herman Melville’s ever popular short story, “Benito Cereno,” has not yet been sufficiently analyzed. In the first flurries of the Melville revival in the 1920’s and 1930’s, “Benito Cereno” was hailed as an artful narrative,l...

... is wrong, or so inevitably right when he is right that he will continue to be read when ‘sounder’ men have been forgotten.” B. BERNARDCOHEN Wayne University Herman Melville: A Critical Study. By RICHARDCHASE. New York: Mac...

... College Collected Poems of Herman Melville. Edited by HOWARDP. VIN- CENT. Chicago: Packard and Company, 1947. Pp. xxii + 502. $4.00. (Also as Vol. XIV of Complete Works of Herman Mel- ville. Pp. xxii + 548.) A new collected edition of Melville’s writings has for some time been...

...,” The New Yorker, Febru- ary 19, 1949, pp. 84-89. 8 Richard Chase, “Dissent on Billy Budd,” Partisan RPviau, XV (1948), 1212- 13. See also his book, Herman Melville: A Critical Study (New York, 1949)) D. 265. 7 Joseph Schiff man, “Melville’s Final Stage, Irony,” American Literature, XXII...

... own responsibility. Examination of Herman Melville’s gradual mastery of allusive art clarifies the problems of his use of this particular literary device ; more important it offers new insights into his achievements as a major writer and illuminates the Melville can0n.l One should...

...., Melville’s Reading: A Check-list of Books Owned and Borrowed, offprinted from Harvard Library Bulletin, 1948-50, Entry No. 221. 2 Leon Howard, Herman Melville: A Biography (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 19-51]. DD. 130-31. 3 Fr6m Fuller, Melville took the hint of “the world in a man-of-war...

... Weaver’s Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic (1921), was to a considerable degree responsible for the revival of interest in Melville, a revival which amounted to a redis- covery. There had been a small flurry of interest in his work at the time of his death in 1891, thirty-four years after...

... in their fashion experts whose judg- ments of one another cannot escape being revealing. The new ma- terial, made available through a study of the underlinings and mar- ginal notations in the books that Herman Melville owned, helps to clarify that writer’s intentions and show him to be one...