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Article: Critical Essays on Herman Melville's "Moby Dick".(Book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
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- September 22, 1993
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Critical Essays on Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," ed. Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker (G.K. Hall, 1992), 570 pp., $40.00
In their Introduction, Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker trace the literary history of Moby Dick from its beginning to present-day scholarship. The essays contained in this reasonably priced volume begin with thirteen early reviews, favorable and unfavorable, of a work that was not well understood by its Victorian audience. Many reviews were simply summaries at best, or hostile at worst. Some acknowledged Melville's indebtedness to Emerson, Carlyle, Shakespeare, Milton, and others. The Literary World (New York) pontificated about the "conceited ...