Melville at Sea.(Herman Melville, A Biography, Volume 2, 1851-1891)

The Nation;  May 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ...HERMAN MELVILLE, A Biography, Volume 2, 1851-1891...45. In 1851, when the 32-year-old Herman Melville published his masterpiece Moby-Dick...the South Seas, and the career of Herman Melville, swashbuckling author, was launched...

HERMAN MELVILLE'S VISIT; TO AUBURN WILL BE TOPIC.(Local)

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  October 11, 2006 ;     60 words ...Herman Melville's visit to Auburn will be topic The author of Moby Dick, Herman Melville, visited Auburn in 1859. That visit will be discussed by Howard G. Nelson, professor of English at Cayuga Community College, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the...

Melville's 'Bridegroom Dick.' (Herman Melville)

The Explicator;  March 22, 1994 ;     399 words ......homosexuality is dated 1935. Actually, Herman Melville, who was familiar with the slang...Virginia Community College NOTES 1. Herman Melville, Bridegroom Dick Collected Poems of Herman Melville, ed. Howard P. Vincent (Chicago...

Melville's BRIDEGROOM DICK.(Herman Melville)(homosexuality in...

The Explicator;  June 22, 1994 ;     393 words ......homosexuality is dated 1935. Actually, Herman Melville, who was familiar with the slang...puns no longer necessary. NOTES (1.) Herman Melville, Bridegroom Dick, Collected Poems of Herman Melville, ed. Howard P. Vincent (Chicago...

Herman Melville and modern Japan: a speculative re-interpretation of the...

Leviathan;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Brontes, to William Faulkner. His Herman Melville (1934) and his translation of Moby-Di...introducing Western literature to Japan. Herman Melville is a small, tract-like book, published...probably not coincidental that Abe's Herman Melville appeared in the period during which...

ALA 2002: Why is Melville a good poet?(Herman Melville)(Brief Article)

Melville Society Extracts;  July 1, 2002 ;     168 words ...The year 2000 saw a new edition of Herman Melville's poetry published by Douglas Robillard, and Lisa Lipkin's edition of Battle Pieces: Civil War Poetry of Herman Melville. Melville's poems have also found wider representation in two important...

Herman Melville: A Biography Vol. 1, 1819-1851

Journal of American Culture;  January 1, 1996 ;     236 words ...Herman Melville: A Biography Vol. 1, 1819-1851. Hershel Parker. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1996. As one reads this excellent biography of Herman Melville one is inclined to conclude that nothing remains to be said about...

Herman Melville turns out to be the big one that almost got away.

The Washington Post;  September 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ......pp. $30 The life and afterlife of Herman Melville (1819- 1891) present the greatest...Weaver brought out the first biography (Herman Melville: Mariner and Mystic); in 1923, D.H...mid-twenties and late-thirties -- Herman Melville produced eight or nine novels (at...

Herman Melville, Vol. II.(BOOKS)

The Washington Times;  July 28, 2002 ;     700+ words ......wealth of information, and tragic characterizations that give Herman Melville's masterpiece an epic breadth and dignity seem even more...that he knew well was his best thus far. Its hefty sequel, Herman Melville, Vol 2, 1851-1891 begins with the reviews of that novel...

A. Robert Lee, ed. Herman Melville: Critical Assessments.(Book Review)

Melville Society Extracts;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......devoted to the life and writings of Herman Melville. Not until the new millennium opened...other works is his earlier collection, Herman Melville: Reassessments (1984), all of which...introduction here, as it does to the Herman Melville Laurel Reader, from which it was drawn...

Herman Melville

Archive Photos;  January 1, 1995 ;     97 words ...Archive Photos 01-01-1995 Herman Melville Epic novelist Herman Melville could be the bearded seaman that he wrote of...writers. Moby Dick. novelists. Epic novelist Herman Melville could be the bearded seaman that he wrote of...

The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex: The Original 1821 Narrative Of The...

Sea Classics;  June 1, 2000 ;     256 words ......The Famed Battle Between A Whale And A Ship. That Inspired Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick' By Owen Chase, First Mate of the Whaleship...This volume reproduces these grinning accounts, as well as Herman Melville's notes on the narratives. It sheds light on both our darkest...

The American in charity: "Benito Cereno" and gothic...

Studies in American Fiction;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......the publication and rather tepid reception of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville released to the world a novel he had promised was much more...the New York Day Book, gave its notice the pithy title, HERMAN MELVILLE CRAZY. (2) Still, before the novel's incest and murder plots...

Acquainted with the dark A philosophical novel of post-Civil War New York,...

The Boston Globe;  May 2, 1999 ;     700+ words ......concludes with a bracing water chase through a river of death, Herman Melville at the pursuing helm. Busch animates that most vexing human...around the time his "Battle Pieces" failed critically, Herman Melville took a job as an inspector with the New York Custom House...

Giles Gunn, ed.: A Historical Guide to Herman Melville.(Book review)

Leviathan;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...GILES GUNN, ed. A Historical Guide to Herman Melville New York: Oxford UP, 2005. Paper $19.95; 272 pages. The Oxford Historical Guide to Herman Melville situates Melville's life and writings firmly within the various literary, philosophical...