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South Atlantic Quarterly (1958) 57 (3): 383–384.
Published: 01 July 1958
...C. Hugh Holman Melville as Lecturer . By Sealts Merton M. Jr . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1957 . Pp. xii , 202 . $4.00 . The Fine Hammered Steel of Herman Melville . By Stern Milton R. . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1957 . Pp. x , 297 . $5.75...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1962) 61 (4): 543–544.
Published: 01 October 1962
...H. K. Russell University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers. No. 12, Edith Wharton . By Auchincloss Louis . No. 13, Herman Melville . By Howard Leon . No. 14, The American Short Story . By Ross Danforth . No. 15, F. Scott Fitzgerald . By Shain...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1953) 52 (3): 414–430.
Published: 01 July 1953
...Charles G. Hoffmann Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 THE SHORTER FICTION OF HERMAN MELVILLE Charles G. Hoffmann A FTER Pierre Melville wrote only one serious, full-length novel, 21. The Confidence-Man (1857). Various critics have assumed for various reasons that Pierre...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1964) 63 (3): 440.
Published: 01 July 1964
...William Charvat Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative . By Melville Herman . Ed. by Hayford Harrison Sealts Merton M. Jr. , Chicago : The University of Chicago Press , 1962 . Pp. ix , 432 . $8.00 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 440 The South...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1950) 49 (2): 248–249.
Published: 01 April 1950
...Nathalia Wright Herman Melville: A Critical Study . By Chase Richard . New York : The Macmillan Company . 1949 . Pp. 305 . $3.75. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 248 The South Atlantic Quarterly mentation, by their willingness to embrace and sponsor that which...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1951) 50 (3): 439–440.
Published: 01 July 1951
...Tyrus Hillway Herman Melville . By Arvin Newton . American Men of Letters Series . New York : William Sloane Associates , 1950 . Pp. xiii , 316 . $3.50 . A Reading of Moby-Dick . By Percival M. O. . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1950 . Pp. 136 . $2.75...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1944) 43 (1): 46–51.
Published: 01 January 1944
...Henry W. Wells Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 AN UNOBTRUSIVE DEMOCRAT: HERMAN MELVILLE HENRY W. WELLS BY NO MEANS all the more powerful words on the subject of democracy have been uttered by political leaders or by authors who in good set terms have championed a democratic...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1985) 84 (2): 225–226.
Published: 01 April 1985
...Merton M. Sealts, Jr. Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville . By Rogin Michael Paul . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1983 . Pp. xv , 354 . $22.95 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Book Reviews 225 lifts an intriguing curtain on a hitherto...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (4): 715–725.
Published: 01 October 2016
... of his like-minded predecessors, including author Herman Melville, literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, and social theorist C. L. R. James. © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 interpretation C. L. R. James Herman Melville metaphor Mikhail Bakhtin References Bakhtin Mikhail . (1965...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1958) 57 (3): 382–383.
Published: 01 July 1958
... watch the administrators, whether they be in government, business, or education. DUKE UNIVERSITY FRANK T. DE VYVER Melville as Lecturer. By Merton M. Sealts, Jr. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. Pp. xii, 202. $4.00. The Fine Hammered Steel of Herman Melville. By Milton R. Stern. Urbana...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1959) 58 (4): 587–602.
Published: 01 October 1959
...James E. Miller, Jr. Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 MELVILLE S QUEST IN LIFE AND ART James E. Miller, Jr. HERMAN MELVILLE S LIFE has received careful scrutiny from a number of distinguished biographers and scholars for a period now approaching half a century. Indeed...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1950) 49 (2): 247–248.
Published: 01 April 1950
... treatise, for him to succeed in his purpose. But final judg­ ment must await the fifth volume, which will probably work back over and enlarge upon the glimpses of the literary scene vouchsafed in the present installment. William B. Hamilton Herman Melville: A Critical Study. By Richard Chase. New York...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1985) 84 (2): 223–225.
Published: 01 April 1985
... on, who may have come star-struck by genius, but stay to tidy up after. DUKE UNIVERSITY DEBORAH POPE Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville. By Michael Paul Rogin. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Pp. xv, 354. $22.95. During recent years, especially since the 1950s and 1960s, more...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1938) 37 (1): 41–45.
Published: 01 January 1938
... Moby Dick in the chapter on the description of the tail of a sperm whale suggests Herman Melville s greatest lit­ erary power: that of creating from the commonplace and the ordi­ nary, from the unpleasant and oftentimes gruesome things of hu­ man experience, images that are beautiful and moods...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1977) 76 (1): 121–122.
Published: 01 January 1977
..., a Sarah. The older brother, Gan- sevoort, plays Isaac to Herman s stubborn Ishmael. Fortunately, such biblical identifications cease short of accounting for the addi­ tional six children that complicated the union of Allan Melvill and Maria Gansevoort. All this would cause the reader of Melville...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1951) 50 (3): 437–439.
Published: 01 July 1951
... of Clemens instead of argument over the speculations about him. It is hard to believe that only a generation ago everybody with good sense believed that Albert Bigelow Paine had told in his official biography all that anyone would ever need to know about Mark Twain. Clarence Gohdes. Herman Melville...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1977) 76 (1): 122–123.
Published: 01 January 1977
... of the received truisms concerning Herman Melville. BROWN UNIVERSITY GEORGE MONTEIRO American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. By Edmund S. Morgan. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1975. Pp. x, 454. $11.95. Professor Morgan of Yale University has written both a work of original...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1982) 81 (3): 356.
Published: 01 July 1982
... sustenance toward the end. As Herman Melville was to recall this horror in Clarel, they were compelled in their extremity to think lawful the crime abhorred. One of the survivors was the first mate, Owen Chase, the source though surely not the author of the famous Narrative of the Most Extraordinary...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1987) 86 (1): 86–87.
Published: 01 January 1987
... not do so with books like Higdon s that readers will be studying for some time to come. DUKE UNIVERSITY ELGIN W. MELLOWN American Romanticism and the Marketplace. By Michael T. Gilmore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Pp. vii, 177. $19.95. Dollars damn me, Herman Melville wrote to Nathaniel...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1964) 63 (3): 439–440.
Published: 01 July 1964
... of a Romantic writer who, unfortunately, lived and wrote during a time of literary giants and has been long obscured from view by the shadows cast by their greatness. ATLANTA UNIVERSITY RICHARD K. BARKSDALE Billy Budd, Sailor: An Inside Narrative. By Herman Melville. Ed. by Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts...