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Selected Bibliography on Herman Melville's Moby Dick

Abel, Darrel, Gary Richard Thompson, and Virgil Llewellyn Lokke. Ruined Eden of the present : Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe : critical essays in honor of Darrel Abel. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1981.

Adams, Michael V. "Whaling and Difference: Moby-Dick Deconstructed." New Orleans Review 10.4 (Win. 1983): 59-64.

Allen, Gay Wilson. Melville And His World. A Studio book. New York,: Viking Press, 1971.

Anderson, Charles R. Melville in the South Seas. NY: Dover Publications, 1966.

Andriano, Joseph. "Brother to Dragons: Race and Evolution in Moby-Dick." ATQ 10.2 (Jun 1960): 141+.

Arvin, Newton. Herman Melville. Compass books, C20. New York,: Viking Press, 1957.

Bercaw, Mary K. Melville's Sources. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1987.

Berthoff, Warner. "Characterization in Moby Dick." in The Example of Melville. Princeton UP, 1962.

Berthoff, Warner. The Example of Melville. Princeton, N.J.,: Princeton University Press, 1962.

Bezanson, Walter E. "Moby Dick: Work of Art.". Moby Dick: Centennial Essays. Ed. Tyrus Hillway & Luther Mansfield. Dallas: SMU, 1953.

Bloom, Harold. Ahab. New York: Chelsea House, 1991.

Bloom, Harold. Herman Melville. Modern critical views. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.

Bloom, Harold. Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Modern critical interpretations. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986.

Bluestein, Gene. "Ahab's Sin." Arizona Quarterly. 41.2 (Sum. 1985): 101-116.

Bowen, James K., and Richard Vanderbeets. A Critical Guide To Herman Melville; Abstracts Of Forty Years Of Criticism. Glenview, Ill.,: Scott Foresman, 1971.

Branch, Watson G. Melville, The Critical Heritage. The Critical Heritage Series. London ; Boston: Routledge & K. Paul, 1974.

Braswell, William. Melville's Religious Thought; An Essay In Interpretation. New York,: Pageant Books, 1959.

Bredahl, A. Carl. Melville's Angles Of Vision. University of Florida humanities monograph no. 37. Gainesville,: University of Florida Press, 1972.

Brodhead, Richard H. Hawthorne, Melville, and the Novel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Brodhead, Richard H. New Essays on Moby-Dick. The American Novel. Cambridge Cambridgeshire ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Brodtkorb, Paul. Ishmael's White World; A Phenomenological Reading Of Moby Dick. Yale publications in American Studies ; 9. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965.

Bryant, John, and Robert Milder. eds. Melville's Evermoving Dawn: Centennial Essays. Kent, Ohio: Kent State UP, 1997.

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

Bryant, John. Melville And Repose : The Rhetoric Of Humor In The American Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Budd, Louis J., and Edwin Harrison Cady. On Melville. The Best from American literature. Durham: Duke University Press, 1988.

Cahir, Linda Costanzo. Solitude and Society in the Works of Herman Melville and Edith Wharton. Contributions to the study of American literature no. 3. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Cameron, Sharon, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. The Corporeal Self : Allegories of the Body in Melville and Hawthorne. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.

Canaday, Nicholas. Melville and Authority. University of Florida monographs. Humanities, no. 28. Gainesville,: University of Florida Press, 1968.

Charters, Ann. Melville in the Berkshires. Portents ; 13a. S.l.: s.n., 1969.

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

Chase, Richard Volney. Melville: A Collection Of Critical Essays. Twentieth century views. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall, 1962.

Cowan, Bainard. Exiled Waters : Moby-Dick and the crisis of allegory. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

Curl, Vega. Pasteboard Masks; Fact As A Spiritual Symbol In The Novels Of Hawthorne And Melville. Radcliffe honors theses in English ; no. 2. Cambridge, Mass.,: Harvard University Press, 1931.

Davis, Clark. After the Whale : Melville in the Wake of Moby-Dick. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995.

Dillingham, William B. "The Narrator of Moby Dick." English Studies 49 (Feb. 1968): 20-29.

Dillingham, William B. Melville & His Circle : The Last Years. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Dimock, Wai-chee. Empire For Liberty : Melville And The Poetics Of Individualism. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Dryden, Edgar A. Melville's Thematics Of Form; The Great Art Of Telling The Truth. Baltimore,: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968.

Duban, James. Melville's Major Fiction : Politics, Theology, And Imagination. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1983.

Durer, Christopher S. Herman Melville, Romantic and Prophet: A Study of His Romantic Sensibility and His Relationship to European Romantics. Toronto: York U P, 1996.

Eldridge, H. G. "Careful Disorder: The Structure of Moby Dick." American Literature 39 (May 1967): 145-162.

Frank, Stuart M., and Herman Melville. Herman Melville's Picture Gallery : Sources And Types Of The "Pictorial" Chapters Of Moby-Dick. Fairhaven, Mass.: E.J. Lefkowicz, 1986.

Franklin, H. Bruce. The Wake Of The Gods; Melville's Mythology. Stanford, Calif.,: Stanford University Press, 1963.

Gale, Robert L. A Herman Melville Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.

Gale, Robert L.. Plots and Characters in the Fiction and Narrative Poetry of Herman Melville. Hamden,Conn.: Archon Books, 1969.

Gidmark, Jill B. Melville Sea Dictionary : A Glossed Concordance And Analysis Of The Sea Language In Melville's Nautical Novels. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.

Goering, Wynn M. "To Obey Rebelling: The Quaker Dilemma in Moby Dick." The New England Q 54.4 (Dec. 1981): 519-538.

Greenberg, Robert M. Splintered Worlds : Fragmentation And The Ideal Of Diversity In The Work Of Emerson, Melville, Whitman, And Dickinson. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Grejda, Edward S. The Common Continent of Men: Racial Equality in the Writings of Herman Melville. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat P, 1974.

Gross, Seymour L. "Hawthorne Versus Melville." Bucknell Review 14 (1966): 89-109.

Haberstroh, Charles. Melville and Male Identity. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980.

Hamilton, William. Reading Moby-Dick And Other Essays. American university studies. Series IV, English language and literature ; vol. 69. New York: P. Lang, 1989.

Hands, Charles B. "The Comic Entrance to Moby-Dick." College Literature 2 (1975): 182-91.

Hartstein, Arnold M. "Myth and History in Moby Dick." ATQ 57 (July 1985): 31-43.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Herman Melville, and James Wilson. The Hawthorne And Melville Friendship : An Annotated Bibliography, Biographical And Critical Essays, And Correspondence Between The Two. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1991.

Hayes, Kevin J. The Critical Response To Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Critical responses in arts and letters no. 13. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.

Hayes, Kevin J., Hershel Parker, and Steven Mailloux. Checklist of Melville reviews. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1991.

Hayford, Harrison. "Hawthorne, Melville, and the Sea." New England Quarterly 19 (1946): 435-452.

Hayford, Harrison. Dimensions of Moby-Dick. Chicago, Ill.: Newberry Library, 1982.

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

Herbert, T. Walter. Moby-Dick and Calvinism : A World Dismantled. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1977.

Higgins, Brian, and Hershel Parker. Critical Essays on Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Critical essays on American literature. New York Toronto: G.K. Hall ;Maxwell Macmillan Canada; Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992.

Higgins, Brian, and Hershel Parker. Herman Melville : The Contemporary Reviews. The American critical archives ; 6. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Hillway, Tyrus, Luther S. Mansfield, and Melville Society. Moby-Dick Centennial Essays. Dallas,: Southern Methodist University Press, 1953.

Hoeltje, Hubert H. "Hawthorne, Melville, and 'Blackness.' " American Literature 37 (1965): 41-51.

Horsford, Howard C. "The Design of the Argument in Moby Dick." Modern Fiction Studies 8 (Aug.1962): 233-251. Hoffman, Daniel. Form and Fable in American fiction. New York,: Oxford University Press, 1961.

Howard, Leon, Tom Quirk, and James Barbour. The Unfolding Of Moby-Dick : Essays In Evidence (A Fragment). Glassboro, N.J.: Melville Society, 1987.

Howard, Leon. "The Composition of Moby Dick." in Herman Melville: A Biography. Berkeley, 1951.

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

Jehlen, Myra. Herman Melville : A Collection Of Critical Essays. New century views ; NCV-8. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1994.

Kearns, Michael. "The Material Melville: Shaping Readers' Horizons," in: Michele Moylan and Lane Stiles, eds. Reading Books: Essays on the Material Text and Literature in America. U Mass Press, 1997.

Kelley, Wyn. Melville's City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York. NY: Cambridge U P, 1996.

Kier, Kathleen E. A Melville Encyclopedia : The Novels. 2nd ed. Troy, N.Y.: Whitston Pub. Co., 1994.

Kring, Walter Donald. Herman Melville's Religious Journey. Raleigh, N.C.: Pentland Press, 1997.

Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature. 1923.

Lee, A. Robert. Herman Melville: Reassessments. Critical studies series.

Levin, Harry. The Power Of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville. [1st ] ed. New York,: Knopf, 1958.

Levine, Robert S. The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville. Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Levy, Leo B. "Hawthorne, Melville, and the Monitor." American Literature 37 (1965): 33-40.

Leyda, Jay. The Melville Log; A Documentary Life Of Herman Melville, 1819-1891. 1st ed. New York,: Harcourt Brace, 1951.

Madison, Mary K. Books on Melville, 1891-1981 : A Checklist. Loose-Fish Books ; no. 1. Evanston, Ill.Hattiesburg, MS: Hayford Associates ;Distributed exclusively by the Melville Society of America Dept. of English University of Southern Mississippi, 1982.

Mailloux, Steve, and Hershel Parker. Checklist of Melville Reviews. Los Angeles: Melville Society, 1975.

Mansfield, Luther S. "Symbolism and Biblical Allusion in Moby Dick." Emerson Society Q 28 (1962): 20-23.

Markels, Julian. Melville And The Politics Of Identity : From King Lear To Moby-Dick. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Martin, Robert K. Hero, Captain, and Stranger: Male Friendship, Social Critique, and Literary Form in the Sea Novels of Herman Melville. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1986.

Matthiessen, F. O. American Renaissance; Art And Expression In The Age Of Emerson And Whitman. London, New York etc.: Oxford U P, 1941.

Maxwell, Desmond E. S. "The Tragic Phase: Melville and Hawthorne." American Fiction: The Intellectual Background. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1963.

May, John R. "The Possibility of Renewal: The Ideal and Real in Hawthorne, Melville and Twain." Toward A New Earth: Apocalypse In The American Novel. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1972. 42-91

McSweeney, Kerry. Moby-Dick : Ishmael's Mighty Book. Twayne's masterwork studies ; no. 3. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1986.

Melville, Herman, and Lynn Horth. Correspondence. The writings of Herman Melville ; v. 14. Ed. Herman Melville. The Northwestern-Newberry ed. Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press ;Newberry Library, 1993.

Melville, Herman, Harrison Hayford, and Hershel Parker. Moby-Dick: An Authoritative Text. A Norton critical edition. [1st ] ed. New York,: W. W. Norton, 1967.

Melville, Herman. The Letters Of Herman Melville. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960.

Miller, James E., Jr. "Hawthorne and Melville: No! in Thunder." Quests Surd And Absurd: Essays In American Literature. Chicago: The Univ. of Chicago Press, 1967. 186-208.

Miller, James E., Jr. "Hawthorne and Melville: The Unpardonable Sin." PMLA 70 (1955): 91-114.

Miller, James Edwin. A Reader's Guide To Herman Melville. New York,: Farrar Straus and Cudahy, 1962.

Miller, Perry. The Raven And The Whale : Poe, Melville, And The New York Literary Scene. Johns Hopkins paperback ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Mumford, Lewis. Herman Melville. New York,: The Literary guild of America, 1929.

Murray, Henry A. "In Nomine Diaboli." The New England Q 24 (Dec. 1951): 435-452.

Murray, Henry A., et al. Melville & Hawthorne In The Berkshires: A Symposium. Ed. Howard P.Vincent. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State Univ. Press, 1968.

Mushabac, Jane. Melville's Humor : A Critical Study. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1981.

Myers, Henry Alonzo. "Captain Ahab's Discovery: The Tragic Meaning of Moby Dick." The New England Quarterly 15 (Mar. 1942): 15-34.

Olson, Charles. Call Me Ishmael. San Francisco, Calif.: City Lights Books, 1947.

Otter, Samuel. Melville's Anatomies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Pahl, Dennis. Architects of the Abyss: The Indeterminate Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1989.

Parker, Hershel, and Harrison Hayford. Moby-Dick As Doubloon; Essays And Extracts, 1851-1970. Norton critical editions. [1st ] ed. New York,: Norton, 1970.

Parker, Hershel. Herman Melville : A Biography. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Parker, Hershel. The Recognition Of Herman Melville; Selected Criticism Since 1846. Ann Arbor,: University of Michigan Press, 1967.

Philbrick, Nat. In the Heart of the Sea : The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. New York: Viking, 2000.

Pollin, Burton R. "Traces of Poe in Melville." Melville Society Extracts 109 (June 1997): 2-12.

Pommer, Henry Francis. Milton and Melville. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1950.

Post-Lauria, Sheila. Correspondent Colorings: Melville and the Marketplace. Amherst: U Mass Press, 1996.

Reddick, Marcia. "'Something, Somehow Like Original Sin': Striking the Uneven Balance in 'The Town-Ho's Story' and Moby-Dick." ATQ 10.2 (Jun 1996): 81-91.

Reising, Russell, and Peter J. Kvidera. "Fast Fish And Raw Fish: Moby-Dick, Japan, And Melville's Thematics of Geography." New England Quarterly 70.2 (Jun 1997): 285-306.

Renker, Elizabeth. Strike Through The Mask : Herman Melville And The Scene Of Writing. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Ricks, Beatrice, and Joseph D. Adams. Herman Melville: A Reference Bibliography, 1900-1972, With Selected Nineteenth-Century Materials. Boston,: G. K. Hall, 1973.

Robertson-Lorant, Laurie. Melville : A Biography. New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 1996.

Robillard, Douglas. Melville and the Visual Arts : Ionian form, Venetian Tint. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1997.

Rogin, Michael Paul. Subversive Genealogy : The Politics and Art of Herman Melville. New York: Knopf, 1983.

Rosenberry, Edward H. Melville And The Comic Spirit. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955.

Rountree, Thomas J. Critics on Melville. Readings in literary criticism, 12. Coral Gables, Fla.,: University of Miami Press, 1972.

Samson, John. White Lies : Melville's Narratives Of Facts. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989.

Sanborn, Geoffrey. The Sign Of The Cannibal : Melville And The Making Of A Postcolonial Reader. New Americanists. Durham N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998.

Scheidau, Herbert N., and Homer B. Pettey. "Melville's Ithyphallic God." Studies In American Fiction 26.2 (Fall 1998): 193-213.

Schultz, Elizabeth A. Unpainted To The Last : Moby-Dick And Twentieth-Century American Art. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1995.

Schultz, Elizabeth. "The Sentimental Subtext of Moby-Dick: Melville's Response to the 'World of Woe'." Esq : A Journal Of The American Renaissance 42.1 (1996): 29-51.

Sealts, Merton M, Jr. "Approaching Melville Through 'Hawthorne and His Mosses.' " Emerson Society Quarterly 28.3 (1962): 12-15.

Sealts, Merton M. Melville's Reading. Rev. and enl. ed. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.

Sealts, Merton M. The Early Lives Of Melville. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1974.

Sedgwick, William Ellery. Herman Melville; The Tragedy Of Mind. New York,: Russell and Russell, 1962.

Sewall, Richard B. "Moby Dick as Tragedy." In The Vision of Tragedy. New Haven: Yale UP, 1959.

Sherrill, Rowland A. The Prophetic Melville: Experience, Transcendence, and Tragedy. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1979.

Shulman, Robert. "The Serious Functions of Melville's Phallic Jokes." American Literature 33 (May 1961): 179-194.

Solomon, Pearl C. Dickens And Melville In Their Time. New York: Columbia UP, 1975.

Spanos, William V. The Errant Art Of Moby-Dick : The Canon, The Cold War, And The Struggle For American Studies. New Americanists. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995.

Staud, John J. "Moby Dick and Melville's Vexed Romanticism." American Transcendental Quarterly 6.4 (Dec 1992): 279+.

Sten, Christopher. Sounding The Whale : Moby-Dick As Epic Novel. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1996.

Sten, Christopher. The Weaver-God, He Weaves : Melville And The Poetics Of The Novel. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1996.

Stewart, Randall. "Melville and Hawthorne." South Atlantic Quarterly 51 (1952): 436-446.

Stewart, Randall. "The Vision of Evil in Hawthorne and Melville." The Tragic Vision And The Christian Faith. Ed. Nathan A. Scott, Jr. New York: Association Press, 1957.

Szumski, Bonnie. Readings on Herman Melville. The Greenhaven Press Literary Companion To American Authors. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1997.

Thomas, Brook. "The Legal Fictions of Herman Melville and Lemuel Shaw." Critical Inquiry 11 (1984): 24-51.

Thompson, Lawrance Roger. Melville's Quarrel With God. Princeton,: Princeton University Press, 1952.

Trimpi, H. P. "Melville's Use of Demonology and Witchcraft in Moby Dick." Journal of History of Ideas 30 (Oct. 1969): 543-62.

Vincent, Howard Paton. The Merrill Studies in Moby-Dick. Charles E. Merrill program in American literature. Columbus, Ohio,: C. E. Merrill Pub. Co., 1969.

Vincent, Howard Paton. The Trying-out of Moby-Dick. Boston,: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949.

Vogel, Dan. "The Dramatic Chapters in Moby Dick." Nineteenth-Century Fiction 13 (Dec. 1958): 239-247.

Waggoner, Hyatt H. "Hawthorne and Melville Against the Reader With Their Abode." Studies In The Novel 2.4 (1970): 420-424.

Walcutt, Charles C. "The Fire Symbolism in Moby Dick." Modern Language Notes 59 (May 1944):304-310.

Ward, J. A.. "The Function of the Cetological Chapters in Moby Dick." American Literature 28 (May 1956): 164-183.

Watson, Charles N., Jr. "The Estrangement of Hawthorne and Melville." New England Quarterly 46 (1973): 380-402.

Watters, R. E.. "The Meanings of the White Whale." U of Toronto Q 20 (Jan. 1951): 155-168.

Weaver, Raymond M. Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic. New York,: George H. Doran Company, 1921.

Wenke, John Paul. Melville's Muse : Literary Creation & The Forms Of Philosophical Fiction. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1995.

Woodson, Thomas. "Ahab's Greatness: Prometheus as Narcissus." English Literary History (Se. 1966): 449-463.

Wright, Nathalia. Melville's Use Of The Bible. Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1949.

Young, James D. "The Nine Gams of the Pequod." American Literature 15 (Jan. 1954): 449-463.

Zoellner, Robert. The salt-sea mastodon; a reading of Moby-Dick. Berkeley,: University of California Press, 1973.


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