Recently added articles from Leviathan:
Melville's reading and marginalia: introduction.(Herman Melville)
Oct 01, 2008; ... This special issue of Leviathan, devoted to Melville's reading and marginalia, illustrates the increasing use in American literary scholarship of electronic methods of investigation, and this fuller connection to emergent digital resources in turn illustrates new research opportunities and ...
One's own faith: Melville's reading of The New Testament and Psalms.(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2008; ... As Pierre Glendinning wrestles in vain with the task of producing a book that will measure up to the titanic ambitions of his soul, Melville's persistently intrusive narrator meditates on the meaning of nature for the novelist: <Pre>Say what some poets will, Nature is not so ...
Melville's Mosses review and the proclamation of Hawthorne as America's literary messiah.(Herman Melville's book review on Nathaniel Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse)(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Melville-Hawthorne friendship has long fascinated critics and biographers of both authors, as well as anyone interested in the history of American literature. (1) After Shakespeare and the Bible, Hawthorne as both man and literary artist had perhaps the greatest influence on Melville's ...
Congreve and Akenside: two poetic allusions in Melville's "Fragments from a Writing Desk".(Notes)(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2008; ... Herman Melville's "Fragments from a Writing Desk" is interesting for its evidence of the author's formative years. Published under the pseudonym "L. A. V." in two installments (4 and 18 May 1839) in the Lansingburgh Democratic Press, the "Fragments" are Melville's first published fiction ....
Robert Levine and Samuel Otter, Eds. Frederick Douglass & Herman Melville: Essays in Relation.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2008; ... ROBERT LEVINE AND SAMUEL OTTER, EDS. Frederick Douglass & Herman Melville: Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 475 pp. Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville? As Robert S. Levine and Samuel Otter recognize, many readers will find their title's "and" ...
Douglas Robillard, Ed. John Marr and Other Sailors With Some Sea-Pieces: A Facsimile Edition.(Book review)
Oct 01, 2008; ... With an Introduction by Douglas Robillard Kent, Ohio: Kent State UP, 2006. Cloth $59.00. 235 pp. With his timely facsimile edition of John Marr and Other Sailors, Douglas Robillard makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of work on Melville's poetry, even as he also ...
Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville on deck: an introduction.(Editorial)
Jun 01, 2008; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... <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; ... <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; ... <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; ... <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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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 ...