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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation

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• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
• Criticism and interpretation

• On Melville: The Best From American Literature (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), ed. by Louis J. Budd and Edwin Harrison Cady (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Peter West (PDF at Ohio State)

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• Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1921), by Raymond M. Weaver (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Genius Ignored: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Bach, Thoreau, Melville, Van Gogh, Nabokov, and Casablanca (c2001), by Lucius Furius (illustrated HTML at datarealm.com)
• The poet among the hills : Oliver Wendell Holmes in Berkshire ; his Berkshire poems, some of them now first published, with historic and descriptive incidents ... / (Pittsfield, Mass., : George Blatchford, 1895), by J. E. A. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some personal letters of Herman Melville and a bibliography / (New York : E.B. Hackett, The Brick Row Book Shop, 1922), by Meade Minnigerode and Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Herman Melville, mariner and mystic / (New York : George H. Doran Co., 1921), by Raymond M. Weaver (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographical sketch of Herman Melville. ([Pittsfield? Mass.], 1891), by J. E. A. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Herman Melville. ([København, 1904]), by Niels Lauritz Møller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Directory of Melville dissertations. ([Evanston? Ill., 1962]), by Tyrus Hillway, Hershel Parker, and Melville Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A preliminary check-list of the works of Herman Melville in translation. ([Evanston, Ill.] Northwestern University, 1961), by Leland R. Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville. (New York, Sheed & Ward, 1949), by Geoffrey Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Pursuit of Moby Dick; Melville's image of man. (Wallingford, Pennsylvania, Pendle Hill, [1958]), by Gerhard Friedrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doctoral dissertations on Herman Melville / ([Evanston ?, Ill. : s.n., 1962]), by Tyrus Hillway, Hershel Parker, and Melville Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Call me Ishmael. ([San Francisco] City Lights Books, [c1947]), by Charles Olson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville's reviewers, British and American, 1846-1891. (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, [1961]), by Hugh W. Hetherington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taghconic; or, Letters and legends about our summer home, (Boston : Redding and Company, 1852), by J. E. A. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• A preliminary check-list of foreign language materials on the life and works of Herman Melville. ([Evanston, Ill.] Northwestern University, 1960), by Leland R. Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Herman Melville, (New York, The Macmillan Company, 1926), by John Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Herman Melville. Standard edition. ([London, Constable and Company Ltd., 1922-24]), by Herman Melville and Michael Sadleir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pasteboard masks; fact as a spiritual symbol in the novels of Hawthorne and Melville, (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1931), by Vega Curl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doctoral dissertations on Herman Melville : a chronological summary, 1933-1952 / (Greeley, Col., 1953), by Tyrus Hillway (page images at HathiTrust)
• The meaning of Moby Dick, (New York, E. B. Hackett, The Brick row book shop, inc. , 1938), by William S. Gleim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Melville unfolding : sexuality, politics, and the versions of Typee : a fluid-text analysis, with an edition of the Typee manuscript / John Bryant. (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008), by John Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
• The best sea story ever written [electronic resource] / ([Kingston, Ont.? : s.n., 1900?]), by Archibald MacMechan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic, by Raymond M. Weaver (Gutenberg ebook)

• Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography (New York: Edmond Byrne Hackett, 1922), by Meade Minnigerode, contrib. by Herman Melville (page images at Google; US access only)

• Excursions in Victorian Bibliography, by Michael Sadleir (Gutenberg ebook)

• Some Personal Letters of Herman Melville and a Bibliography (New York: Edmond Byrne Hackett, 1922), by Meade Minnigerode, contrib. by Herman Melville (page images at Google; US access only)

• Writing for the Street, Writing in the Garret: Melville, Dickinson, and Private Publication (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Michael S. Kearns (PDF at Ohio State)

• Shakespearean tragedy; lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, (London, Macmillan and co., limited, [1905]), by A. C. Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hymns of the Tamil Saivite Saints (English content only; 1921), ed. by F. Kingsbury and Godfrey E. Phillips (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Shah Latif and His Message, by Jī. Em. Sayyidu, trans. by Egnert Azariah (HTML at gmsyed.org)

• De Codicibus Aeschineis (dissertation in Latin; Berlin: Actien-Gesellschaft, 1882), by Johannes Adam (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Newgate Novel, 1830-1847: Bulwer, Ainsworth, Dickens and Thackeray (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1963), by Keith Hollingsworth, illust. by George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne, and William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and its Legacy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007), by Galina Rylkova (page images at Pitt)

• Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Wen Jin (PDF at Ohio STate)

• Apocalypse South: Judgment, Cataclysm, and Resistance in the Regional Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Anthony Dyer Hoefer (PDF at Ohio State)

• Sixteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism Since 1972 (followup volume to a 1974 survey; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), by Thomas Wolfe, ed. by Jackson R. Bryer, contrib. by Walter B. Rideout, James Leslie Woodress, Brom Weber, James L. W. West, Stuart Y. McDougal, Philip G. Cohen, David Krause, Karl F. Zender, Reginald Lansing Cook, John P. McWilliams, Bruce Stark, John Henry Raleigh, John J. Espey, Ellsworth Barnard, Warren G. French, Joseph N. Riddel, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Richard S. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), by Fernando J. Rosenberg (page images with commentary at Pitt)

• Nocturnal Fabulations: Ecology, Vitality and Opacity in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (in English and French; London: Open Humanities Press, 2017), by Érik Bordeleau, Toni Pape, Ronald Rose-Antoinette, and Adam Szymanski, contrib. by Erin Manning (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)

• The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), by Fernando J. Rosenberg (page images with commentary at Pitt)

• Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and the Modern Temper (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1973), by Edward Alexander
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• The Age of Eclecticism: Literature and Culture in Britain, 1815-1885 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Christine Bolus-Reichert (PDF at Ohio State)
• Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England: Newman, Arnold, and Pater (1969), by David J. DeLaura (HTML at Victorian Web)
• The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry: Sources of the Poetic Imagination in Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold (1952), by E. D. H. Johnson (HTML at Victorian Web)

• Claudius Lavergne: Peintre d'Histoire et Peintre Verrier (in French; Paris: Bloud et cie, ca. 1910), by Georges Claudius Lavergne, contrib. by Claudius Lavergne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Claudius Lavergne: Peintre d'Histoire et Peintre Verrier (in French; Paris: Bloud et cie, ca. 1910), by Georges Claudius Lavergne, contrib. by Claudius Lavergne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Adventures of the Spirit: The Older Woman in the Works of Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, and Other Contemporary Women Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), ed. by Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis (PDF at Ohio State)

• Disciplining Love: Austen and the Modern Man (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Michael Kramp (PDF at Ohio State)
• Re-Reading Box Hill: Reading the Practice of Reading Everyday Life (2000), ed. by William H. Galperin (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• In the Pride of the Moment: Encounters in Jane Austen's World (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by John A. Dussinger (PDF at Ohio State)
• Jane Austen's Novels: The Fabric of Dialogue (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1962), by Howard S. Babb
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• Imagining Minds: The Neuro-Aesthetics of Austen, Eliot, and Hardy (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Kay Young (PDF at Ohio State)

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