Herman Melville
The Contemporary Reviews
Part of American Critical Archives
- Editors:
- Brian Higgins, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Hershel Parker, University of Delaware
- Date Published: October 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521121156
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Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews reprints virtually all the known contemporary reviews of Herman Melville's writings from the 1840s until his death in 1891. Many of his reviews are reprinted from hard-to-locate contemporary newspapers and periodicals. These materials document the response of the reviewers to specific worlds and share the course of Melville's nineteenth century reputation as travel writer, romancer, short-story writer, and poet.
Read more- The volume reprints all the known contemporary reviews of Melville's writings, with the exception of a few very short notices
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- Date Published: October 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521121156
- length: 588 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 156 x 31 mm
- weight: 0.81kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Typee
2. Omoo
3. Mardi
and A Voyage Thither
4. Redburn
5. White-jacket
6. Moby-Dick
7. Pierre
or, The Ambiguities
8. Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile
9. The Piazza tales
10. The confidence-man: his masquerade
11. Battle-pieces and aspects of the war
12. Clarel: a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land
Index.
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