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.
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
Interpretation and Criticism
Journal Articles
Books, essays, and journal articles indexed in MLA International Bibliography [Database]
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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 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
Letter from Herman Melville to Evert Duyckinck by Meade Minnigerode, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons