SELECTED CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL/TEXTUAL STUDIES OF MELVILLE

ENGLISH 560 / FALL 2008

Typee

Crain, Caleb.  “Lovers of Human Flesh: Homosexuality and Cannibalism in Melville’s Novels.”  American Literature 66 (1994):25-53.

Goudie, S.X.  “Fabricating Ideology: Clothing, Culture, and Colonialism in Melville’s Typee.”  Criticism 40 (1998):217-35.

Howard, Jennifer. “Call Me Digital.” Chronicle of Higher Education 52 (2006 Feb 17): A14-A16, A18-A19. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2007300757&site=ehost-live

Rowe, John Carlos.  “Melville’s Typee: U.S. Imperialism at Home and Abroad.”  In National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives. Ed. Donald E. Pease.  Durham: Duke UP, 1994, 255-78.

Sanborn, Geoffrey .  Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader.  Durham: Duke UP, 1998.

Thompson, G.R.  “Being There: Melville and the Romance of Real Life Adventure.”  ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 51 (2005): 1-46. 

Moby-Dick

Armstrong, Philip.  “'Leviathan Is a Skein of Networks': Translations of Nature and Culture in Moby-Dick.”  ELH 71 (2004): 1039-63.

Colacurcio, Michael. “'Artificial Fire': Reading Melville (Re-)reading Hawthorne.”  Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 33 (2007): 1-22.

Doctorow, E.L.  “Composing Moby-Dick: What Might Have Happened.”  Kenyon Review 26 (2004): 55-66.

Lamb, Robert Paul.  “Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish: Teaching Melville's Moby-Dick in the College Classroom.”  College Literature 32 (2005): 42-62.

Olsen-Smith, Steven.  Melville’s Marginalia Online. http://www.boisestate.edu/melville/IntroFrameset.html

Sanborn, Geoffrey.  “Whence Come You, Queequeg?”  American Literature 77 (2005): 227-57.

Wilson, Sarah.  “Melville and the Architecture of Antebellum Masculinity.”  American Literature 76 (2004): 59-87.

Pierre

Creech, James.  Closet Writing/Gay Reading: The Case of Melville’s Pierre.  Chicago: U Chicago P, 1993

Everton, Michael.  “Melville in the Antebellum Publishing Maelstrom.”  ESQ 53 (2007): 227-58.

Jones, Gavin.  “Poverty and the Limits of Literary Criticism.”  American Literary History 15 (2003): 765-92.

Kelly, Win.  “Pierre’s Domestic Ambiguities.”  In Robert S. Levine, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville (NY: Cambridge UP, 1999), 91-113.

Levander, Caroline Field.  “‘Foul-Mouthed Women’: Disembodiment and Public Discourse in Herman Melville’s Pierre and E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Fatal Marriage.”  In Levander, Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture (NY: Cambridge UP, 1999), 35-56.

Levine, Robert S.  “Pierre’s Blackened Hand.”  Leviathan 1 (1999): 23-44.

Milder, Robert.  “’The Ugly Socrates’: Melville, Hawthorne, and Homoeroticism.”  ESQ 46 (2000): 1-49.

Sweet, Nancy F.  “Abolition, Compromise, and ‘The Everlasting Elusiveness of Truth’ in Melville’s Pierre.”  SAF 26 (1999): 3-28.

Wilson, Sarah.  “Melville and the Architecture of Antebellum Masculinity.”  American Literature 76 (2004): 59-87.

Stories/General

Bosworth, David.  “Two Sides of a Tortoise: Melville, Dickens, and the Eclipse of the West's Moral Imagination.”  Georgia Review 58 (2004): 855-83. (Bartleby)

Colacurcio, Michael.  “Charity and Its Discontents: Pity and Politics in Melville’s Fiction.”  In Roger Lundin, ed. There Before Us: Religion and American Literature, from Emerson to Wendell Berry (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007), pp. 49-79

Downes, Paul.  “Melville's Benito Cereno and the Politics of Humanitarian Intervention.”  South Atlantic Quarterly 103 (2004): 465-88.

Garland-Thompson, Rosemarie.  “The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia: 'Sad Fancyings' in Herman Melville's 'Bartleby.'”  American Literature 76 (2004): 776-806.

Henderson, Gretchen E.  “Through the Eyes of a Scrivener.”  Southern Review 42 (2006): 144-52.

Luciano, Dana.  “Melville's Untimely History: 'Benito Cereno' as Counter-Monumental Narrative.”  Arizona Quarterly 60 (2004): 33-60.

Reed, Naomi.   “The Specter of Wall Street: 'Bartleby, the Scrivener' and the Language of Commodities.”  American Literature 76 (2004): 247-73.

Schaffer, Carl.  “Unadmitted Impediments, Unmarriageable Minds: Melville's 'Bartleby' and 'I and My Chimney.'” Studies in Short Fiction 24 (1987): 93-101.