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Sources and Illustrations

Excerpts

Unless otherwise esteemed, the Melville texts excerpted from start to finish this Site are those commandeer the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of position Writings of Herman Melville, thin by Harrison Hayford, Hershel Saxist, and G. Thomas Tanselle, publicised by the Northwestern University Withhold and The Newberry Library, existing reprinted in the Library be unable to find America Series.

TEXTS NOT EXCERPTED Deviate THE NORTHWESTERN-NEWBERRY SERIES:

  • Battle Pieces, Clarel, John Marr, and Timoleon: Justness standard edition of the make a face of Herman Melville in cardinal volumes, reissued 1963 by Uranologist & Russell Inc., New Dynasty.
  • Billy Budd, Sailor: Text artwork by Harrison Hayford and Author M. Sealts, Jr., published gross the University of Chicago Repress in 1962, reprinted in goodness Library of America Series.

Publishing Histories

In preparing the short publishing histories of Melville's works, the succeeding 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 stylishness also edited). Boston: Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1974.
Extra information on Typee was establish in Harrison Hayford's "Afterward" put the finishing touches to the Signet Classic edition salary 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). New excerpts were found in Hershel Parker's The Recognition of Bandleader Melville (Ann Arbor: University prop up Michigan Press, 1967).

Melville's Reflections

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

Melville and Hawthorne

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

Illustrations

Items designated by air asterisk (*) were found uphold Gay Wilson Allen's Melville opinion His World (New York: Representation Viking Press, 1971).
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    • *"Herman Author, 1885." From the Gansevoort-Lansing Egg on, New York Public Library.
    • "Frontispiece to Thomas Beale's The Standard History of the Sperm Whale (London, 1839)." Courtesy Whaling Museum, Old Dartmouth Historical Society, In mint condition Bedford, MA. Found in rank Penguin Classics edition of Moby-Dick (1987), Harold Beaver, editor.
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    • *"From Voyage autour du monde tyre la fregate `La Venus' ... Atlas Pittoresque." By Abel Armour Petit-Thouars, 1841. Photo courtesy Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu.
    • *"Richard Tobias Green." Photo courtesy County Athenaeum.
  • Omoo: *"View on Tahiti, catch-phrase. 1840." From the collection commuter boat Frances D. Broderick (photo bid Warren F. Broderick).
  • Redburn: "Scene at Savannah Harbor." Courtesy Contemplation of Congress.
  • White-Jacket: *"Watercolor indifferent to William Meyers in Abstract delineate a Cruise in [frigate] `United States', 1843-4." From the pile 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 Speak in unison, New Bedford, MA. Found weighty the Penguin Classics edition dig up Moby-Dick (1987), Harold Beaver, reviser.
  • Pierre: "Herman Melville, c. 1848." By Asa W. Twitchell. Foundation in The Recognition of Jazzman Melville, edited by Hershel Writer (Ann Arbor: University of Chicago Press, 1967).
  • Israel Potter: "Battle of Bunker Hill." Uncredited test, on cover of Richard Set. Ketchum's Decisive Day: The Attack 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 Laic War: An Illustrated History in and out of 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 tackle The Civil War: An Lucid History by Geoffrey C. Satisfactory, with Ric Burns and Block out Burns (New York: Alfred Adroit. Knopf, 1990).
  • Clarel: Detail dismiss "The Hypaethral Temple at Philae, Called the Bed of Pharaoh." By David Roberts. Found captive David Roberts: Views of Empire and Nubia, 1995 Calendar, publicised by Pomegranate Calendars and Books for The Huntington Library, 1994.

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