MAP: MOBY DICK
Voyage of the Pequod, a literary map by Everett Henry based on Moby Dick. Published between 1953 and 1964 by the Harris-Seybold Company of Cleveland. Available online at the Library of Congress.
GETTING STARTED WITH YOUR RESEARCH
Background Research 
Scribner Writers Series [Database]
Essay on the life and works of Herman Melville, complete works and suggested reading bibliographies
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Literature Resource Center [DATABASE] Critical Essays on Herman Melville
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville [E-BOOK] Edited by Robert S. Levine, Cambridge University Press
Browse all Colby Materials on Herman Melville
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Interpretation and Criticism
Journal Articles
Books, essays, and journal articles indexed in MLA International Bibliography [Database]
MLA International Bibliography is the definitive literary research database, indexing the most authoritative Wharton scholarship published in books and academic journals. MLA indexes and links to the entire JSTOR literary research collection as well as linking to many other full-text providers and the Colby College Libraries catalog. If you discover books or articles through MLA that are not available at Colby or through our lending partners, please request these items using your ILLiad Account.
Specific Articles...
"Two Discoveries Concerning Herman Melville," Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1975, [JSTOR]
"Property and Selfhood in Herman Melville's Pierre," Jeffory A. Clymer, Ninettenth-Century Literature, 2006 [JSTOR]
Books
Books on Research and Criticism on Herman Melville at Colby Libraries
Specific Titles...
Melville: Fashioning in Modernity [BOOK] Stephen Matterson , 2014, PS2387 .M34 2014
African Culture and Melville's Art: the creative process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick [BOOK] Sterling Stucky, 2009, PS2387 .S78 2009
Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer [BOOK] Robert T. Tally Jr., 2009, PS2387 .T35 200
Herman Melville
Herman Melville 1885 by George G. Rockwood, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dates: 1819-1891
Nationality: American
Literary Periods:
Romantic Period,
American Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period, 1900-1930
Modernist Period, 1899-1945
Twentieth Century, 1900-1999
MELVILLE LETTER
Letter from Herman Melville to Evert Duyckinck by Meade Minnigerode, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons