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Topic: Authors: HERMAN MELVILLE

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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.

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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

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]

Herman Melville

Herman Melville 1885 by George G. Rockwood, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Brief biography 

Literary & topical timeline 

Bibliography of works

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

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