Herman Melville
The Contemporary Reviews

This volume reprints virtually all the known contemporary reviews of Herman Melville's writings from the 1840s until his death in 1891.

Brian Higgins (Edited by), Hershel Parker (Edited by)

9780521121156, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 17 September 2009

588 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 3.1 cm, 0.81 kg

Review of the hardback: 'A beautifully presented, meticulously researched volume.' Borderlines

Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews reprints virtually all the known contemporary reviews of Herman Melville's writings from the 1840s until his death in 1891. Many of his reviews are reprinted from hard-to-locate contemporary newspapers and periodicals. These materials document the response of the reviewers to specific worlds and share the course of Melville's nineteenth century reputation as travel writer, romancer, short-story writer, and poet.

Introduction
1. Typee
2. Omoo
3. Mardi
and A Voyage Thither
4. Redburn
5. White-jacket
6. Moby-Dick
7. Pierre
or, The Ambiguities
8. Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile
9. The Piazza tales
10. The confidence-man: his masquerade
11. Battle-pieces and aspects of the war
12. Clarel: a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]