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Melville, Herman
American b.1819 d.1891

  1. In Allen, W.E. Short Story in English. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. pp. 38-42.
    Criticism -- Short Stories -- "Bartleby the Scrivener" -- "Benito Cereno"

  2. In Alter, Robert. Partial Magic. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1975. pp. 127-137.
    Criticism -- The Confidence Man

  3. In American Critical Essays. London: Oxford University Press, 1959. pp. 332-347.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Moby-Dick

  4. In American Novelists Revisted: Essays in Feminist Criticism. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co, 1982. pp. 107-142.
    Criticism -- Works -- Novels

  5. In Anderson, Quentin The Proper Study. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1962. pp. 527-544.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick

  6. In Bewley, Marius The Eccentric Design: Form in the Classic American Novel. New York: Columbia, 1963. pp. 187-219.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Moby-Dick

  7. In Blackmur, R.P. The Expense of Greatness. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1958. pp. 139-166.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Moby-Dick -- Pierre

  8. In Bloom, Harold, ed. American Renaissance. Broomall, Pa, Chelsea House, 2004. pp. 27-40, 51-76.
    Criticism -- Mardi -- Moby-Dick -- Pierre -- Shakespeare, William

  9. In Bloom, Harold, ed. The Epic. Philadelphia, Chelsea House, 2005. pp. 162-167.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick

  10. In Buckley, Vincent Poetry and the Sacred. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1968. pp. 144-171.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Moby-Dick --

  11. In Burnshaw, Stanley. Varieties of Literary Experience . New York, New York University Press, 1962. pp. 183-213.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick --

  12. In Carpenter, Frederic American Literature and the Dream. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1968, c1955]. pp. 73-92.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Billy Budd -- Moby-Dick --
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  13. In Chase, Richard Volney The American novel and its tradition . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1957, 1983. pp. 93-115.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Billy Budd-- Moby-Dick

  14. In Cohen, Hennig, ed. Landmarks of American Writing . New York, Basic Books, 1969. pp. 121-133.
    Criticism -- The Confidence-Man --

  15. In Cowie, Alexander The Rise of the American Novel. New York, American Book Co. [1951]. pp. 363-411.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Moby-Dick --

  16. In Cowley, Malcolm. New England Writers and Writing. Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, c1996. pp. 66-72, plus see index.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Moby-Dick -- Pierre --

  17. In Delbanco, Andrew. Required Reading. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. pp. 3-32.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Moby-Dick --

  18. In Donoghue, Denis Connoisseurs of chaos; ideas of order in modern American poetry. New York, Macmillan [1965]. pp. 76-99.
    Criticism -- Poetry

  19. In Edgar, Pelham. The Art of the Novel. New York, Macmillan, 1933. pp. 130-135.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick --

  20. In Erskine, John The delight of great books. Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company [c1928]. pp. 223-242.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick

  21. In Fadiman, Clifton. Party of One: The Selected Writings of Clifton Fadiman. Cleveland: World Pub., [1955]. pp. 136-144.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick

  22. In Fiedler, Leslie Love and death in the American Novel. New York, Stein and Day, 1966. pp.369-388.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Moby-Dick --
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  23. In Fleischman, Fritz, ed. American Novelists Revisited. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1982. pp. 107-142.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Poetry

  24. In Fogle, Richard Harter. The Permanent Pleasure. Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1974. pp. 17-59.
    Criticism -- Works -- Poetry -- "After the Pleasure Party" -- Battle-Pieces -- Billy Budd -- "Bridegroom Dick" -- Clarel -- "Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem" -- "The Great Pyramid" -- "The Haglets" -- "Lone Founts" -- "John Marr" -- John Marr and Other Sailors -- "Monody" -- "Syra" -- Timoleon -- "Timoleon" -- Weeds and Wildings with a Rose or Two

  25. In Foster, Richard, ed. Six American Novelists of the Nineteenth Century. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1968. pp. 191-225.
    Criticism -- Works -- Billy-Budd -- Clarel -- Mardi -- Moby-Dick -- Omoo -- Pierre --

  26. In Frederick, John T. The Darkened Sky: Nineteenth Century Novelists and Religion. Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1969. pp. 79-122.
    Criticism -- Works

  27. In Friedman, Maurice The Problematic rebel: an image of modern man. New York Random House [1963]. See index.
    Criticism -- Bartleby -- Billy Budd -- The Confidence Man -- Moby-Dick

  28. In Green, Martin Burgess. Re-appraisals: Some Commonsense Readings of American Literature. Norton, 1965. pp. 87-112.
    Criticism -- Works -- Moby-Dick

  29. Gross, Seymour L. Images of the Negro in American Literature. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1966. pp. 135-162.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Race in Literature -- Mardi -- Moby-Dick -- White Jacket --

  30. In Hardwick, Elizabeth. American Fictions. New York : Modern Library, 1999. pp. 3-14.
    Criticism -- Bartleby the Scrivener

  31. In Kaplan, Morton. The Unspoken Motive . New York, Free Press, 1973. pp. 63-79.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Bartleby the Scrivener

  32. In Kazin, Alfred. Alred Kazin's America. New York : HarperCollins, c2003. pp. 344-369.
    Criticism -- Works -- Poetry -- Moby-Dick

  33. In Kazin, Alfred An American Procession. New York: Knopf, 1984. pp. 131-160
    Criticism -- Works -- Moby-Dick --

  34. In Kazin, Alfred Contemporaries. Boston, Little, Brown [1962] pp. 29-40.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick --

  35. In Kazin, Alfred God and the American Writer . New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. pp. 86-106, plus see index.
    Criticism -- God in Literature -- Works -- "Clarel" -- Moby-Dick

  36. In Ketterer, David. New Worlds for Old. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Press, 1974. pp. 267-295.
    Criticism -- The Confidence Man --

  37. In Kronenberger, Louis. Novelists on Novelists . Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Books, 1962. pp. 264-280.
    Criticism -- Works -- Moby-Dick --

  38. In Kuhlmann, Susan. Knave, Fool, and Genius. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1973. pp. 104-122.
    Criticism -- The Confidence Man

  39. In Lawrence, D. H. Studies in classic American literature. [New York] : Penguin Books, [1977]. pp. 139-170.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick -- Omoo -- Typee
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  40. In Levin, Harry. Contexts of Criticism. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1957. pp. 97-109.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick

  41. In Lewis, R. W. B. Literary Reflections. Boston : Northeastern University Press, c1993. pp. 110-128.
    Criticism -- Pierre

  42. In McCarthy, Harold T. The Expatriate Perspective. Rutherford, N.J., Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1974. pp. 47-61.
    Criticism -- Works -- Redburn

  43. In MacIver, R. M., ed. Great Moral Dilemmas in Literature, Past and Present. New York, Cooper Square Publishers, 1964 [c1956]. pp. 73-82.
    Criticism -- Billy Budd
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  44. In McNeir, Waldo, ed. Studies in American Literature. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1960. pp. 49-57.
    Criticism -- Benito Cereno --

  45. In Malin, Irving. Psycholanalysis and American Fiction. New York, Dutton, 1965. pp. 111-120.
    Criticism -- Works -- The Confidence Man -- Moby-Dick -- Pierre

  46. In Marder, Daniel Exiles at home : a story of literature in nineteenth century America.Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c1984. pp. 207-275.
    Criticism -- Billy Budd -- Mardi -- Moby-Dick -- Redburn --

  47. In Maugham, W. Somerset The art of fiction. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1955 [c1954]. pp. 189-214.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick

  48. In Maugham, W. Somerset Great novelists and their novels. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co. [c1948]. pp. 211-232.
    Criticism -- Moby Dick

  49. In Mizener, Arthur M. Twelve Great American Novels . New York: New American Library, [1967]. pp. 19-33.
    Criticism -- Moby Dick

  50. In Morris, Wright. Earthly Delights, Unearthly Adornments. New York: Harper & Row, c1978. pp. 25-32.
    Criticism -- Works -- Benito Cereno

  51. Nixon, Nicola. "Men and Coats; or, The Politics of the Dandiacal Body in Melville's Benito Cereno." In PMLA, Vol. 114, No. 3, May 1999, pp. 359-372.
    Criticism -- Benito Cereno

  52. In Noble, David W. The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden. New York, Braziller, 1968. pp. 34-47.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick --

  53. In Oates, Joyce Carol. The Edge of Impossibility. New York, Vanguard Press, 1972. pp. 59-84.
    Criticism -- Works -- Billy Budd -- The Confidence-Man -- Moby-Dick -- Pierre --

  54. In Oates, Joyce Carol. Where I've Been and Where I'm Going. New York : Plume, c1999. pp. 269-279.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works -- "Benito Cereno"

  55. In Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae. London; New Haven : Yale University Press, c1990. pp. 584-595.
    Criticism -- Works -- Billy Budd -- Moby-Dick -- "Paradise of Bachelors, Tartarus of Maids"

  56. In Pennell, Melissa McFarland. Masterpieces of American Romantic Literature. Westport, CT., Greenwood, 2006. pp. 95-114, 201-240.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick

  57. In Poirier, Richard. Trying It Out in America . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. pp. 254-276.
    Criticism -- Works -- Moby-Dick - Pierre

  58. In The Proper Study; essays on Western classics. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1962. pp. 527-544.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick

  59. In Quinn, Arthur Hobson. American Fiction; an Historical and Critical Survey. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts [1964]. pp. 132-148.
    Criticism -- Works

  60. In Ragussis, Michael Acts of naming: the family plot in fiction. New York : Oxford University Press, 1986. pp. 48-64.
    Criticism -- Pierre

  61. In Rahv, Philip. Literature in America .New York, Meridian Books, 1957. pp. 168-184.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick --

  62. In Railton, Stephen. Authorship and Audience . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1991. pp. 152-189.
    Criticism -- Works -- "Benito Cereno" -- Moby-Dick -- Redburn

  63. In Seltzer, Alvin J. Chaos in the Novel, the Novel in Chaos. New York, Schocken Books, 1974. pp. 52-79.
    Criticism -- The Confidence-Man --

  64. In Sewall, Richard B. The vision of tragedy. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1959. pp. 92-105.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick

  65. In Shapiro, Charles, ed. Twelve original essays on great American novels Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1958. pp. 44-68.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick

  66. In Shaw, Peter. Recovering American Literature. Chicago : I.R. Dee, 1994. pp. 48-100.
    Criticism -- Billy Budd -- Moby-Dick

  67. In Skillion, Anne Introducing the great American novel . New York : W. Morrow, c1988. pp. 33-45.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Moby-Dick

  68. In Smiley, Jane. 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel. New York : Knopf, c2005. pp. 371-373.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick

  69. In Smith, Henry Nash. Democracy and the Novel. New York : Oxford University Press, 1978. pp. 35-55.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick

  70. In Snell, George The Shapers of American Fiction, 1798-1947. New York, Cooper Square Publishers, 1961 [c1947]. pp. 60-77.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works -- Mardi -- Moby-Dick -- White-Jacket

  71. In Stegner, Wallace, ed. The American novel: from James Fenimore Cooper to William Faulkner. New York, Basic Books [1965]. pp. 25-34.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick

  72. In Stone, Edward. A Certain Morbidness; a View of American Literature. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [1969]. pp. 16-42.
    Criticism -- Works -- "Bartleby the Scrivener" -- Moby Dick

  73. Stone, Robert. "American Dreamers: Melville and Kerouac."In The New York Times Book Review, Vol. 147, No. 50999, Dec. 7, 1997, pp. 18-19.
    Criticism -- Melville, Herman -- Moby-Dick -- On the Road

  74. In Tindall, William York. The Literary Symbol, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, c1955. pp. 21-26.
    Criticism -- Moby Dick

  75. In Trilling, Lionel. Prefaces to the Experience of Literature. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1979. pp. 74-78.
    Criticism -- Bartelby the Scrivener

  76. In Vahanian, Gabriel. Wait Without Idols . New York G. Braziller, 1964. pp. 72-92.
    Criticism -- Works -- Moby-Dick -- God in Literature

  77. In Van Doren, Carl. The American Novel, 1789-1939 . New York, The Macmillan company, 1940. pp. 84-102.
    Criticism -- Works -- Mardi -- Moby-Dick

  78. In Vickery, John B., ed. Myth and Literature: Contemporary Theory and Practice. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1966. pp. 193-200.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick

  79. In Vogel, Dan The three masks of American tragedy. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press [1974]. pp. 128-133, 151-159.
    Criticism -- Billy Budd -- Moby-Dick

  80. In Wagenknecht, Edward. Cavalcade of the American Novel. New York, Holt, [1952]. pgs. 58-81.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works

  81. In Walcutt, Charles Child. Man's Changing Mask. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1966. pp. 104-123.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick

  82. In Warren, Robert Penn. New and Selected Essays. New York : Random House, c1989. pp. 219-233.
    Criticism -- Poetry

  83. In Wegelin, Christof, ed. The American Novel: Criticism and Background Readings. New York, Free Press, 1971. pp. 155-196.
    Criticism -- Moby-Dick

  84. In Wood, James. The Broken Estate. New York : Random House, c1999. pp. 26-40.
    Criticism -- Works -- Moby-Dick

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