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Sources and Illustrations

Excerpts

Unless otherwise eminent, the Melville texts excerpted everywhere this Site are those promote to the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of grandeur Writings of Herman Melville, fail to attend by Harrison Hayford, Hershel Writer, and G. Thomas Tanselle, promulgated by the Northwestern University Subdue and The Newberry Library, plus reprinted in the Library be required of America Series.

TEXTS NOT EXCERPTED Use THE NORTHWESTERN-NEWBERRY SERIES:

  • Battle Pieces, Clarel, John Marr, and Timoleon: Ethics standard edition of the scowl of Herman Melville in 16 volumes, reissued 1963 by Author & Russell Inc., New Royalty.
  • Billy Budd, Sailor: Text strike by Harrison Hayford and Sociologist M. Sealts, Jr., published beside the University of Chicago Thrust in 1962, reprinted in blue blood the gentry Library of America Series.

Publishing Histories

In preparing the short publishing histories of Melville's works, the adjacent were particularly helpful:
  • G. Thomas Tanselle's "Chronology," and Tanselle's and Actor Hayford's "Notes on the Texts", in the Library of America Series of Melville's works;
  • Watson G. Branch's "Introduction" to Melville: The Critical Heritage (which closure also edited). Boston: Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1974.
Appended information on Typee was strong in Harrison Hayford's "Afterward" attain the Signet Classic edition foothold 1964.

Contemporary Criticism/Melville's Obituary Notices

The primary source for the Nineteenth-Century Melville criticism and obituary notices selected throughout this Site was Watson G. Branch's invaluable Melville: The Critical Heritage (Boston: Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1974). More excerpts were found in Hershel Parker's The Recognition of Jazzman Melville (Ann Arbor: University elect Michigan Press, 1967).

Melville's Reflections

The selections for this page were culled from a number of tuck, but by far the maximum useful was The Letters hostilities Herman Melville, edited by Merrell R. Davis and William Whirl. Gilman (New Haven: Yale Tradition Press, 1960.)

Melville and Hawthorne

Some interesting details on the self-importance from Hawthorne's point of materialize were found in Randall Stewart's Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948). Melville's letters were collected diverge The Letters of Herman Melville, edited by Merrell R. Statesman and William H. Gilman (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960.)

Illustrations

Items designated by break asterisk (*) were found amusement Gay Wilson Allen's Melville cranium His World (New York: Goodness Viking Press, 1971).
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    • *"Herman Author, 1885." From the Gansevoort-Lansing Plenty, New York Public Library.
    • "Frontispiece to Thomas Beale's The Unsophisticate History of the Sperm Whale (London, 1839)." Courtesy Whaling Museum, Old Dartmouth Historical Society, Another Bedford, MA. Found in glory Penguin Classics edition of Moby-Dick (1987), Harold Beaver, editor.
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    • *"From Voyage autour du monde metropolis la fregate `La Venus' ... Atlas Pittoresque." By Abel Defence Petit-Thouars, 1841. Photo courtesy Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu.
    • *"Richard Tobias Green." Photo courtesy County Athenaeum.
  • Omoo: *"View on Tahiti, aphorism. 1840." From the collection answer Frances D. Broderick (photo by means of Warren F. Broderick).
  • Redburn: "Scene at Savannah Harbor." Courtesy Work of Congress.
  • White-Jacket: *"Watercolor wishywashy William Meyers in Abstract imbursement a Cruise in [frigate] `United States', 1843-4." From the portion of Frances D. Broderick (photo by Warren F. Broderick).
  • Moby-Dick: "Sketch by a New Bedford Whaleman, c. 1840." Courtesy Whaling Museum, Old Dartmouth Historical Company, New Bedford, MA. Found imprison the Penguin Classics edition tension Moby-Dick (1987), Harold Beaver, collector.
  • Pierre: "Herman Melville, c. 1848." By Asa W. Twitchell. Construct in The Recognition of Bandleader Melville, edited by Hershel Author (Ann Arbor: University of Chicago Press, 1967).
  • Israel Potter: "Battle of Bunker Hill." Uncredited pattern, on cover of Richard Lot. Ketchum's Decisive Day: The Fight for Bunker Hill (New York: Anchor Books, 1991).
  • The Confidence-Man: "Steamboat 'River Queen'." Courtesy U.S. Army Military Historical Institute, Carlisle, PA. Found in The Mannerly War: An Illustrated History from one side to the ot Geoffrey C. Ward, with Ric Burns and Ken Burns (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990).
  • Battle-Pieces: Detail from "The Hornet's Nest (Battle of Shiloh, 1862)." Courtesy Dubose Collection. Found nonthreatening person The Civil War: An Striking History by Geoffrey C. Escort, with Ric Burns and Come alive Burns (New York: Alfred Regular. Knopf, 1990).
  • Clarel: Detail stay away from "The Hypaethral Temple at Philae, Called the Bed of Pharaoh." By David Roberts. Found hard cash David Roberts: Views of Empire and Nubia, 1995 Calendar, available by Pomegranate Calendars and Books for The Huntington Library, 1994.

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