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A new appraisal of Melville based on recent research: his life, writings, and personal critical judgments. The author, a professor at Colorado State College, has been teaching and writing about Melville for more than 20 years.

A collection of articles examining the life and works of the nineteenth-century American author and poet, including discussion of "Moby Dick," "Benito Cereno," and "Billy Budd."

The complex author of the quintessential American masterpiece is demystified by a leading contemporary critic. Hardwick's novelistic flair reveals a former whaleship deck-hand whose voyages were the stuff of travel romances that seduced the public. A single novel, an eternal classic, established him as a founding father of American literature. Now, a century after his death, a new popular surge of interest in Herman Melville calls for Elizabeth Hardwick's...

Describes the events surrounding Melville's life and provides a detailed analysis of his major works including Typee, Omoo, White-jacket, Billy Budd, and his masterpiece, Moby-Dick.

Fourteen-year-old Ishmael Leseur is certain that his name is the cause of his unhappy school life as the victim of the worst bully in his class, but when a new boy arrives, he shows Ishmael that things could be different.

First published in 1947, this acknowledged classic of American literary criticism explores the influences-especially Shakespearean ones-on Melville's writing of Moby-Dick. One of the first Melvilleans to advance what has since become known as the "theory of the two Moby-Dicks," Olson argues that there were two versions of Moby-Dick, and that Melville's reading King Lear for the first time in between the first and second versions of the book had a...