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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Political and social views

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• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
• Political and social views

• 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)

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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)
• Ishmael (originally published 1956; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James Baird (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Genius Ignored: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Bach, Thoreau, Melville, Van Gogh, Nabokov, and Casablanca (last revised 2018), by Lucius Furius (illustrated HTML at humanist-art.org)

• 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)

• 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)

• Melville Unfolding: Sexuality, Politics, and the Versions of Typee: A Fluid-Text Analysis, with an Edition of the Typee Manuscript (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by John Bryant, contrib. by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)

• Melville's Thematics of Form: The Great Art of Telling the Truth (originally published 1968; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Meaning of Moby Dick (New York: Russell and Russell, 1962), 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 (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by John Bryant, contrib. by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)

• Toward a Theater of the Oppressed: The Dramaturgy of John Arden (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Javed Malick (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Public and the Private in Aristotle's Political Philosophy (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1992), by Judith A. Swanson (multiple formats with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Eloquence of Mary Astell (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2005), by Christine Mason Sutherland (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels (originally published 1971, revised 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alistair M. Duckworth (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• From Joseph Bensman: Essays on Modern Society (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2014), by Joseph Bensman, ed. by Robert Jackall and Duffy Graham (PDF at Tennessee)

• Civil Society and David Blunkett: Lawyers vs Politicians (c2002), by Kenneth R. Minogue (PDF at Civitas)

• The Socialism and Unsocialism of Thomas Carlyle: A Collection of Carlyle's Social Writings, Together With Joseph Mazzini's Famous Essay Protesting Against Carlyle's Views (2 volumes; New York: Humboldt Pub. Co., c1891), by Thomas Carlyle, ed. by William Dwight Porter Bliss, contrib. by Giuseppe Mazzini (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Naked Text: Chaucer's Legend of Good Women (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Sheila Delany (HTML at UC Press)
• Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Elaine Tuttle Hansen (HTML at UC Press)
• Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005), ed. by Warren S. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• Keeping the Rabble in Line: Interviews with David Barsamian, by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian (HTML at zcomm.org)

• Les Idées Féministes de Christine de Pisan (thesis in French; 1911), by Rose Rigaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Book of Peace, by Christine de Pisan, ed. by Karen Green, C. J. Mews, and Janice M. Pinder (PDF at PSU)

• The Whig Myth of James Fenimore Cooper (New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1938), by Dorothy Waples (page images at HathiTrust)
• History and Utopia: A Study of the World View of James Fenimore Cooper, by Allan M. Axelrad (HTML at James Fenimore Cooper Society)

• Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Karen Sánchez-Eppler (HTML at UC Press)
• 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)

• As to The Leopard's Spots: An Open Letter to Thomas Dixon, Jr. (Washington: K. Miller, c1905), by Kelly Miller
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Dryden in Revolutionary England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by David Bywaters (HTML at UC Press)

• The Emancipator (early anti-slavery newspaper; 1820), ed. by Elihu Embree (full serial archives)

• Mr. Emerson's Revolution (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), ed. by Jean McClure Mudge (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Gandhi: The Meaning of Mahatma for the Millennium (Indian philosophical studies V; Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2001), ed. by Kuruvila Pandikattu (multiple formats at Google)
• Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths, by Mark Shepard (HTML at markshep.com)

• State and Intellectual in Imperial Japan: The Public Man in Crisis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Andrew E. Barshay (HTML at UC Press)

• Hayek, Mill and the Liberal Tradition (London and New York: Routledge, c2011), ed. by Andrew Farrant
  • PDF files with commentary at taylorfrancis.com
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org

• The Metaphysical Theory of the State: A Criticism, by L. T. Hobhouse (PDF at McMaster)

• Telling Wonders: Ethnographic and Political Discourse in the Work of Herodotus (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Rosaria Vignolo Munson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Young Howells and John Brown: Episodes in a Radical Education (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1985), by Edwin Harrison Cady (PDF at Ohio State)

• President Saddam Hussein Addresses the 6th Non-Aligned Summit Meeting (Baghdad: Dar al-Ma'mun for Translation and Publishing, 1982), by Saddam Hussein (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Address of the Committee Appointed by a Republican Meeting in the County of Hunterdon, Recommending Gen. Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee, to the People of New-Jersey, as President of the United States (1824), contrib. by Nathan Price
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Karen Sánchez-Eppler (HTML at UC Press)

• The Radical Lives of Helen Keller (New York and London: New York University Press, c2004), by Kim E. Nielsen (PDF and Epub with commentary at OAPEN)

• Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c2021), by Andrew J. Douglas and Jared A. Loggins (HTML and PDF with commentary at manifoldapp.org)

• Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism (orginally published 1989, revised 2007), by Dennis King (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Lyndon LaRouche: Fascism Restyled for the New Millennium (Seattle: Red Letter Press, c2003), by Helen Gilbert (PDF at redletterpress.org)

• Best of Times, Worst of Times: Memoirs of a Political Education (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Walter Laqueur (page images and PDF at Brandeis)

• Why Rush Limbaugh is Wrong: or, The Demise of Traditionalism and the Rise of Progressive Sensibility, by Michael Rahman (PDF at Tripod)

• Abraham Lincoln: A Real American (Chicago: Socialist Party of the USA, ca. 1936), by Daniel W. Hoan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Año Lincoln, 1959 (in Spanish; published in Mexico, ca. 1959), by United States Information Service, contrib. by Abraham Lincoln (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Selections from the Letters, Speeches, and State Papers of Abraham Lincoln (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1911), by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Ida M. Tarbell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Selections From the Letters, Speeches, and State Papers of Abraham Lincoln (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., c1925), by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Ida M. Tarbell (page images at HathiTrust)

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