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Herman Melville
Scope|Circulating Books|Critical Sources|Periodicals,
Journals, & Trade Publications|Web Sites
Scope: During his career American novelist Herman Melville received little recognition. It was not until years after his death that his works were even considered being of literary greatness. Melville is perhaps best known for his novel Moby Dick.
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Books of Herman Melvilles works are listed in the Baddour Library's on-line catalog under Melville, Herman or under individual titles, i.e. Moby Dick.
Books written by and about Herman Melville have the call number(s):
PS 2388
PS 201.M3
PS 374.S7
PS 2386
PS 2384
PS 2387
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Some representative
books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library
are:
Adamson, Joseph. Melville, Shame, and the Evil Eye: A Psychoanalytic Reading. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997.
Jehlen, Myra. Herman Melville: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1994.
Kirby, David K. Herman Melville. New York: Continuum, 1993.
Robertson-Lorant, Laurie. Melville: A Biography. New York: Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 1996.
Wenke, John Paul. Melvilles Muse: Literary Creation & the Forms of Philosophical Fiction. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1995.
CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. The following titles are appropriate to this topic:
REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol.3 Antebellum writers in New York and the South
REF PR 821.C7 1991 Critical Survey of Long Fiction
REF PS 2386.G3 A Herman Melville Encyclopedia
REF PS 2386.K44 A Melville Encyclopedia: The Novels
REF PS 94.M34 1993 Masterpieces of American Literature
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a
list of full text journals available through our
databases in:
WEB
SITES
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/
Literary Resources on the Net
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html
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Updated
08/20/2007
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