Herman Melville / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's classic critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Criticism and interpretation.

Melville, Herman.

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xii, 205 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2008]

Summary:

Although he spent much of his career in obscurity, Herman Melville, the author of classics such as Moby-Dick, Billy Budd, and "Bartleby, the Scrivener," has since become known as one of America's greatest writers. This volume features essays from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that trace the resurgence of Melville's literary influence and reputation.

Contents:

Personal 3

William Ellery Channing "The Island Nukuheva" (1847) 5

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) 5

Sophia Hawthorne (1850) 6

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851) 7

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1856) 8

Fitz-James O'Brien "On Young Authors-Melville" (1853) 13

"Sir Nathaniel" "American Authorship: IV. Herman Melville" (1853) 14

W. Clark Russell "Sea-Stories" (1884) 25

Robert Buchanan "Socrates in Camden, with a Look Round" (1885) 28

Edwin P. Whipple "American Literature" (1886) 29

Charles F. Richardson (1887) 29

Robert Louis Stevenson (1888) 29

Anonymous (1891) 30

Richard Henry Stoddard (1891) 32

Henry S. Salt "Marquesan Melville" (1892) 33

John St. Loe Strachey "Herman Melville" (1893) 43

William P. Trent (1903) 45

Carl Van Doren (1917) 46

Works 49

Typee 51

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1846) 51

Margaret Fuller (1846) 52

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1846) 52

James Russell Lowell (1848) 53

Thomas Low Nichols (1864) 53

Katharine Lee Bates (1897) 53

Jack London "Typee" (1910) 53

Omoo 54

Walt Whitman (1847) 54

Charles Gordon Greene (1847) 54

Horace Greeley (1847) 55

Mardi 57

Henry Cood Watson (1849) 57

Redburn 59

George Ripley (1849) 59

White-Jacket 61

George Ripley (1850) 61

Frederick Swartwout Cozzens (1850) 62

Moby-Dick 63

Herman Melville (1851) 63

Herman Melville (1851) 67

Herman Melville (1851) 69

Anonymous (1851) 72

Henry Chorley (1851) 74

Anonymous (1851) 76

Evert A. Duyckinck "Melville's Moby Dick; or, The Whale" (1851) 77

Horace Greeley (1851) 83

William T. Porter "Moby Dick, or The Whale" (1851) 85

William A. Butler (1851) 87

George Ripley "Literary Notices" (1852) 91

Archibald MacMechan "The Best Sea Story Ever Written" (1899) 93

Joseph Conrad (1907) 100

Frank Jewett Mather Jr. "Herman Melville" (1919) 101

Raymond Weaver "Herman Melville" (1921) 103

Lincoln Colcord "Notes on Moby Dick" (1922) 106

D.H. Lawrence "Herman Melville's Moby Dick" (1923) 117

Carl Van Doren "Mr. Melville's Moby Dick" (1924) 134

Charles Olson (1947) 138

Pierre 142

Anonymous "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities" (1852) 142

Anonymous "Review of New Books" (1852) 147

Anonymous "Pierre, or The Ambiguities" (1852) 147

Anonymous "New Novels" (1852) 160

Julian Hawthorne "The American Element in Fiction" (1886) 162

The Piazza Tales 162

Anonymous (1856) 163

Anonymous (1856) 164

The Confidence Man 164

Anonymous (1857) 164

Ann Sophia Stephens (1857) 165

Anonymous (1857) 166

Poetry 167

Anonymous (1866) 168

Richard Henry Stoddard (1866) 169

Edmund Clarence Stedman (1876) 170

Billy Budd 173

E.L. Grant Watson "Melville's Testament of Acceptance" (1933) 173

Karl E. Zink "Herman Melville and the Forms-Irony and Social Criticism in Billy Budd" (1952) 178

Wendell Glick "Expediency and Absolute Morality in Billy Budd" (1953) 187.

Notes:

A selection of important older literary criticism on Herman Melville.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791095577

0791095576

OCLC:

129959509