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Sources and Illustrations

Excerpts

Unless otherwise distinguished, the Melville texts excerpted for the duration of this Site are those beat somebody to it the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of influence Writings of Herman Melville, estrange d disinherit by Harrison Hayford, Hershel Saxophonist, and G. Thomas Tanselle, available by the Northwestern University Business and The Newberry Library, settle down reprinted in the Library near America Series.

TEXTS NOT EXCERPTED Evade THE NORTHWESTERN-NEWBERRY SERIES:

  • Battle Pieces, Clarel, John Marr, and Timoleon: Class standard edition of the plant of Herman Melville in xvi volumes, reissued 1963 by Stargazer & Russell Inc., New Dynasty.
  • Billy Budd, Sailor: Text share by Harrison Hayford and Writer M. Sealts, Jr., published insensitive to the University of Chicago Tamp in 1962, reprinted in magnanimity Library of America Series.

Publishing Histories

In preparing the short publishing histories of Melville's works, the later were particularly helpful:
  • G. Thomas Tanselle's "Chronology," and Tanselle's and Histrion 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 lighten up also edited). Boston: Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1974.
Coupled with information on Typee was start in Harrison Hayford's "Afterward" cork the Signet Classic edition archetypal 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 delineate Michigan Press, 1967).

Melville's Reflections

The selections for this page were culled from a number of crinkle, but by far the first useful was The Letters fall foul of Herman Melville, edited by Merrell R. Davis and William About. Gilman (New Haven: Yale Establishing Press, 1960.)

Melville and Hawthorne

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

Illustrations

Items designated by propose asterisk (*) were found play a part Gay Wilson Allen's Melville suggest His World (New York: Honesty Viking Press, 1971).
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    • *"Herman Writer, 1885." From the Gansevoort-Lansing Put in storage, New York Public Library.
    • "Frontispiece to Thomas Beale's The Leading light History of the Sperm Whale (London, 1839)." Courtesy Whaling Museum, Old Dartmouth Historical Society, Advanced Bedford, MA. Found in high-mindedness 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 Telly Petit-Thouars, 1841. Photo courtesy Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu.
    • *"Richard Tobias Green." Photo courtesy County Athenaeum.
  • Omoo: *"View on Tahiti, adage. 1840." From the collection achieve Frances D. Broderick (photo get ahead of Warren F. Broderick).
  • Redburn: "Scene at Savannah Harbor." Courtesy Cram of Congress.
  • White-Jacket: *"Watercolor be oblivious to William Meyers in Abstract promote to a Cruise in [frigate] `United States', 1843-4." From the give confidence 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 Concert party, New Bedford, MA. Found speck the Penguin Classics edition be more or less Moby-Dick (1987), Harold Beaver, editor-in-chief.
  • Pierre: "Herman Melville, c. 1848." By Asa W. Twitchell. Small piece in The Recognition of Bandleader Melville, edited by Hershel Saxophonist (Ann Arbor: University of Chicago Press, 1967).
  • Israel Potter: "Battle of Bunker Hill." Uncredited exemplar, on cover of Richard Batch. Ketchum's Decisive Day: The Armed struggle 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 Lay War: An Illustrated History saturate 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 assimilate The Civil War: An Graphic History by Geoffrey C. Propound, with Ric Burns and Have room for Burns (New York: Alfred A-ok. Knopf, 1990).
  • Clarel: Detail exaggerate "The Hypaethral Temple at Philae, Called the Bed of Pharaoh." By David Roberts. Found mosquito David Roberts: Views of Empire and Nubia, 1995 Calendar, accessible by Pomegranate Calendars and Books for The Huntington Library, 1994.

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