Recently added articles from Leviathan:
Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville on deck: an introduction.(Editorial)
Jun 01, 2008; Wallace, Robert K. ... The first publication in which Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville each appeared as featured subjects was the May 27, 1847, issue of the National Anti-Slavery Standard. A column by Charles F. Briggs, who signed his contribution "B," defended Douglass against public attacks recently ...
What to Israel Potter is the Fourth of July? Melville, Douglass, and the agency of words.(Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville)(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2008; Baker, Anne ... The Fourth of July was problematic for many Americans from the moment it became the United States's national holiday. It provoked rancorous debate over how the nation's founding should be celebrated, over what exactly was being celebrated, and even over whether celebration was merited at ...
City of hope and fear: Douglass and Melville in the nation's capital.(Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville in Washington, D.C.)(Essay)
Jun 01, 2008; Sten, Christopher ... Among several points of convergence in the lives of Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville, an especially notable one centers on the nation's capital and the Federal Government. Both men were well-known authors and public figures who traveled to Washington several times before and during ...
Where were Douglass and Melville on April 15, 1865?(Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville)(Essay)
Jun 01, 2008; Peeples, Scott ... My title refers to the question that people often ask each other in a discussion of historic events: Where were you when you heard about ...? Anticipated events--Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon, the unscheduled but not unexpected resignation of Richard Nixon--sometimes evoke the ...
A hid event, twice lived: the post-war narrative sub-versions of Douglass and Melville.(Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville)(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2008; Trodd, Zoe ... Nay, but revere the hid event ... ... And live, twice live in life and story Herman Melville, "The Conflict of Convictions" and "In the Turret" On-beat, then syncopated, Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville wrote in rhythm with one another as they explored the gaps ...
Meaning and transcendence: Melville, Douglass, and the anxiety of interpretation.(Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass)(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2008; Montas, Roosevelt ... Questions of interpretation pervade Melville's fiction. Melville repeatedly examines--sometimes with obsessive persistence--the process whereby an individual constructs meaning from a given set of signs. This interest in interpretation is sometimes narrowly textual and at other times ...
In the Beginning.(The Outer and The Inner: Four Poems)(Poem)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2008; Beuttel, Jane E. ... <Pre> In the Beginning Melville Circles on a gridColliding penetratingIgnite creation The discarded sonHaunted by the memoryOf a mother's scorn My soul is aching1 am lost in a strange landOf signs in symbols Death and ...
The Search.(The Outer and The Inner: Four Poems)(Poem)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2008; Beuttel, Jane E. ... <Pre> The Search Melville Sea and spirit blendThe rhythm of the agesOvercomes the soul Great LeviathanPain and ecstasy combinedHow can we know thee Warp woof hand and swordActs purposeful and randomWeave man's destiny ...
Fusion.(The Outer and The Inner: Four Poems)(Poem)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2008; Beuttel, Jane E. ... <Pre> Fusion Melville The charmed churned circleThe jaws of impending deathBirths eternal life Being in the NowNo past or future presentIs life transcendent 'Twixt heaven and earthSacred manifestationGod and man conjoined ...
The New Heaven and the New Earth.(The Outer and The Inner: Four Poems)(Poem)(Brief article)
Jun 01, 2008; Beuttel, Jane E. ... <Pre> The New Heaven and the New Earth Melville Enigma divineThou must possess a blanketTo hide your secrets Not the spoken wordCan clarify your knowledgeA gift of spirit Sublime creationViewed as angel or devilIn the heart of ...
Elizabeth Schultz and Haskell Springer, Eds.: Melville and Women.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Duquette, Elizabeth ... ELIZABETH SCHULTZ AND HASKELL SPRINGER, EDS. Melville and Women Kent, OH: Kent Statue University Press, 2006 Cloth $39.00. 287 pp. The revival of Herman Melville's reputation in the early years of the twentieth century was materially assisted by Lewis ...
John Bryant and Haskell Springer, Eds.: Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Olsen-Smith, Steven ... JOHN BRYANT AND HASKELL SPRINGER, EDS. Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition New York: Pearson Longman, 2007 Paper $19.95. 660 pp. However meticulous its editing, and however exact its apparatus, the appearance of an alternative scholarly edition of ...
All Astir.(Extracts)
Jun 01, 2008; Kelley, Wyn ... Gems and jewels let them heap--Wax sumptuous as the Sophi: For me, to grapple from Art's deep One dripping trophy!--"In a Garret" We have not just one dripping trophy to display. The chests of "Extracts" are unusually full of treasure in this issue. Such a wealth of offerings ...
The pleasures of reading Moby-Dick.(Extracts)(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2008; Karcher, Carolyn L. ... Students or general readers confronting Moby-Dick for the first time often feel as terror-stricken as sailors at the sight of the legendary white whale heading for them "with open jaws, and a lashing tail" (NN MD 558). Those undaunted by the book's vast bulk and towering reputation find ...
What's a feminist to do with Melville?(MLA 2007--Chicago)(Herman Melville)
Jun 01, 2008; Avallone, Charlene ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Feminist criticism contributes a stimulating, if still compact, scholarship in the field of Melville studies. The past three decades of feminist study have not only revisited questions of Melville and misogyny, but also renewed interest in his short ...
Sinister badges of womanhood, blackness, and homosexuality in Melville's Redburn.(MLA 2007--Chicago)(Herman Melville)(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2008; Levy, Heather ... Elizabeth Hardwick optimistically suggests that "throughout Melville's writing there is a liberality of mind, a freedom from tribal superstition, a rejection of superiority of race or nation" (xvii). Hardwick emphasizes Wellingborough's indignant assessment of the failure of Americans to ...
Love will keep us together: sentimentalism and the problem of incest in Melville's Pierre and Maria McIntosh's Violet.(MLA 2007--Chicago)(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2008; Engholm, Virginia B. ... Cindy Weinstein's important recent book Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature addresses one of the most debated issues in the study of Herman Melville's Pierre, that of whether or not the novel can be considered sentimental. She points out that many ...
Toward a feminist reading of Herman Melville's stories about the material conditions of writing.(MLA 2007--Chicago)(Critical essay)
Jun 01, 2008; Andres, Rodrigo ... Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853) and "The Tartarus of Maids" (1855) both may be read as explorations of the gendered dimension of the job of the scrivener, that is, the copyist. In my reading, I suggest that these texts are informed by Herman Melville's considerations ...
Response to the papers.(MLA 2007--Chicago)
Jun 01, 2008; Weinauer, Ellen ... Insofar as feminist criticism allows us to talk about the politics of masculinity, or masculine identity formation, or sexuality, we've got an embarrassment of riches in Melville. But insofar as feminist criticism devotes itself to representations of women, or representations of "women's" ...
A Melville scholar at risk: the disappearance of Prof. Hassan Muayyad.(Herman Melville)
Jun 01, 2008; Herbert, T. Walter ... To the editor: I learned in December of 2007 that Prof. Hassan Muayyad, an Iraqi Melville scholar, had gone missing in his home town of Mosul, most likely kidnapped and assassinated. I had received a letter from Muayyad exactly five years before, in December of 2002, about three ...