General Criticism

• Adler, Joyce Sparer, War in Melville's Imagination. New York: New York University Press, 1981.
• Anderson, Charles Roberts, Melville in the South Seas. New York: Columbia University Press, 1939. Reprinted, New York: Dover, 1966.
• Auden, W. H., "The Christian Tragic Hero." In New York Times Book Review, December 16, 1945.
• Auden, W. H., The Enchafed Flood: or The Romantic Iconography of the Sea. New York: Random House, 1950.
• Babcock, C. Merton, "The Language of Melville's Isolatoes." In Western Folklore 10, no. 3, (October 1951).
• Babcock, C. Merton, "Melville's Moby Dictionary." In Word Study, 29 (December 1953).
• Baird, James, Ishmael. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1956.
• Baym, Nina, "Melville's Quarrel with Fiction." In Publications of the Modern Language Association, 94 (1979), pp. 909-21.
• Bernstein, John, Pacifism and Rebellion in the Writings of Herman Melville. The Hague: Mouton, 1964.
• Berthoff, Warner, The Example of Melville. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963.
• Boudreau, Gordon V., "Of Pale Ushers and Gothic Piles: Melville's Architectural Symbology." In ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 18 (2nd Quarter 1972).
• Bowen, Merlin, The Long Encounter: Self and Experience in the Writings of Herman Melville. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.
• Braswell, William, "Herman Melville and Christianity." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1934.
• Braswell, William, Melville's Religious Thought: An Essay in Interpretation. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1943. Reprinted, New York: Pageant Books, 1959.
• Bredahl, A. Carl Jr., Melville's Angels of Vision. University of Florida Humanities Monograph, Number 37. Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 1972.
• Bryant, John, ed., A Companion to Melville Studies. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
• Bryant, John, "Melville's Comic Debate: Geniality and the Aesthetics of Repose." In On Melville: The Best From American Literature, Louis J. Budd and Edwin Cady, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988, pp. 254-273.
• Bryant, John, Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Budd, Louis J. and Cady, Edwin, eds., On Melville: The Best From American Literature. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988.
• Cannon, Agnes D., "Melville's Use of Sea Ballads and Songs." In Western Folklore, 23 (1964), pp. 1-16.
• Charvat, William, "Melville." In The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870. Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1968, pp. 204-261.
• Chase, Richard, Herman Melville: A Critical Study. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1949.
• Chase, Richard, ed., Melville: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice-Hall, 1962.
• Dew, Marjorie, "Black-Hearted Melville: 'Geniality' Reconsidered." In Artful Thunder: Versions of the Romantic Tradition in American Literature in Honor of Howard P. Vincent, ed. Robert J. DeMott and Sanford E. Marovitz. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1975.
• Dimock, Wai-chee, Empire For Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
• Douglas, Ann, "Herman Melville and the Revolt Against the Reader." In The Feminization of American Culture. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977, pp. 289-326.
• Dryden, Edgar A., Melville's Thematics of Form: The Great Art of Telling the Truth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968.
• Feidelson, Charles, Symbolism and American Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953.
• Fiedler, Leslie, Love and Death in the American Novel. New York: Criterion Books, 1960. Reprinted, New York: Meridian Books, 1962.
• Finkelstein, Dorothee M., Melville's Orienda. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961.
• Flibbert, Joseph, Melville and the Art of Burlesque. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1974.
• Franklin, H. Bruce, The Wake of the Gods: Melville's Mythology. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967.
• Geist, Stanley, Herman Melville: The Tragic Vision and the Heroic Ideal. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1939.
• Guetti, James, The Limits of Metaphor. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967.
• Hayes, Kevin J. and Parker, Hershel, Checklist of Melville Reviews. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1991.
• Hayford, Harrison, "The Significance of Melville's `Agatha' Letters." In ELH, A Journal of English Literary History, 13 (December 1946), pp. 299-310.
• Hoeltje, Hubert H., "Hawthorne, Melville, and 'Blackness'." In On Melville: The Best From American Literature, Louis J. Budd and Edwin Cady, eds.. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988, pp. 73-83.
• Hoffman, Daniel G., Form and Fable in American Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1961.
• Homans, George C., "The Dark Angel: The Tragedy of Herman Melville." In New England Quarterly, 5 (October 1932), pp. 699-730.
• Josephson, M., "Transfiguration of Herman Melville." In The Outlook, 150 (September 19, 1928).
• Kaplan, Sidney, "Herman Melville and the American National Sin." In Journal of Negro History, 41 (October 1956), pp. 311-38.
• Karcher, Carolyn L., Shadow Over the Promised Land: Slavery, Race, and Violence in Melville's America. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.
• Lawrence, D.H., Studies in Classic American Literature. New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923; London: Martin Secker, 1924. Reprinted, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1953; London: Penguin, 1971.
• Levin, Harry, The Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
• Lewis, R. W. B. "Melville on Homer." In On Melville: The Best From American Literature, Louis J. Budd and Edwin Cady, eds.. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988, pp. 52-61.
• Little, Thomas Alexander, "Literary Allusions in the Writings of Herman Melville." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nebraska, 1948.
• Martin, Robert K., Hero, Captain, and Stranger: Male Friendship, Social Critique, and Literary Form in the Sea Novels of Herman Melville. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
• Marx, Leo, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Idea in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. Reissued as a Galaxy Book, 1967.
• Mason, Ronald, The Spirit Above the Dust: A Study of Herman Melville. London: John Lehmann, 1951.
• Mayoux, Jean-Jacques, Melville. New York: Grove Press, 1960. Translation of Melville par lui-meme. Paris: Editions du seuil, 1958.
• Matthiessen, F.O., American Renaissance. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1941.
• Miller, James E., Jr., A Reader's Guide to Herman Melville. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (Noonday ser.), 1962.
• Miller, Perry, "Melville and Transcendentalism." In Virginia Quarterly Review, 29 (Autumn 1953), pp. 556-575.
• Moore, Richard S., That Cunning Alphabet: Melville's Aesthetics of Nature. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1982.
• Mumford, Lewis, "The Significance of Herman Melville." In The New Republic, 56 (October 10, 1928), pp. 212-214.
• Nascimento, Daniel C., "Melville's Berkshire World: The Pastoral Influence upon His Life and Works." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, 1971.
• Olsen, Charles, Call Me Ishmael. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947.
• Parker, Hershel, "Melville and Politics: A Scrutiny of the Political Milieux of Herman Melville's Life and Works." Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, 1963.
• Pavese, Cesare, "Herman Melville." In American Literature: Essays and Opinions. Trans. Edwin Fussell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970, pp. 55-68.
• Percival, M.O., A Reading of Moby-Dick. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950.
• Person, Leland S., Jr., Aesthetic Headaches: Women and Masculine Poetics in Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988.
• Pommer, Henry F., Milton and Melville. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1950.
• Pops, Martin Leonard, The Melville Archetype. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1970.
• Pullin, Faith, ed., New Perspectives on Melville. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1978.
• Reynolds, David, Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. New York: Knopf, 1988.
• Robinson, Zan Dale, "A Semiotic and Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Herman Melville's Fiction." Ph.D. dissertation, Mellen Research University, 1991.
• Rogin, Michael Paul, Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville. New York: Knopf, 1983.
• Rosenberry, Edward, Melville and the Comic Spirit. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955.
• Schultz, Elizabeth A., "Re-viewing Melville: The Illustrated Editions". In Melville Society Extracts, no. 103 (December 1995), pp. 1-18.
• Sealts, Merton M., Jr., "Melville's Geniality." In Essays in American and English Literature Presented to Bruce Robert McElderry, Jr., ed. Max Schulz. Athens: University of Ohio Press, 1967, pp. 3-26.
• Sealts, Merton M., Jr., "Melville's 'Neoplatonical Originals'." In Modern Language Notes, 67 (February 1952), pp. 80-86.
• Sealts, Merton M., Jr., Melville's Reading: A Check-List of Books Owned and Borrowed. Cambridge: Harvard University Printing Office, 1950.
• Sealts, Merton M., Jr., Melville's Reading: Revised and Enlarged Edition. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.
• Sealts, Merton M., Jr., "A Supplementary Note to Melville's Reading." In Melville Society Extracts, no. 80 (February 1990), pp. 5-10.
• Sedgewick, William Ellery, Herman Melville: The Tragedy of Mind. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1944.
• Seelye, John D., Melville: The Ironic Diagram. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970.
• Sewall, Richard B., The Vision of Tragedy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959. Reissued as a Yale Paperbound, 1962.
• Shulman, Robert, "The Serious Functions of Melville's Phallic Jokes." In American Literature, vol. 33 (May 1961).
• Simpson, Eleanor M., "Melville and the Negro: From Typee to 'Benito Cereno'." In On Melville: The Best From American Literature, Louis J. Budd and Edwin Cady, eds.. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988, pp. 135-54.
• Slater, Judith, "The Domestic Adventurer in Melville's Tales." In On Melville: The Best From American Literature, Louis J. Budd and Edwin Cady, eds.. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988, pp. 84-96.
• Stanonik, Janez, Moby-Dick: The Myth and the Symbol. Ljubljana: Ljubljana University Press, 1962.
• Stein, William Bysshe, "Melville and the Creative Eros." In Lock Haven Bulletin, 2 (1960), pp. 13-26.
• Stein, William Bysshe, "Melville's Eros." In Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 3 (1961), pp. 297-308.
• Stern, Milton R., The Fine Hammered Steel of Herman Melville. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1957.
• Thomas, Brook, Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature: Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
• Thompson, Lawrance, Melville's Quarrel With God. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1952.
• Thorp, Willard, Herman Melville: Representative Selections. New York: American Book Company, 1938.
• Tolchin, Neal, Mourning, Gender, and Creativity in the Art of Herman Melville. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.
• Van Doren, Carl, The American Novel. New York: Macmillan, 1921.
• Van Vechten, Carl, "The Later Work of Herman Melville." In Double Dealer, 3 (January 1922), pp. 9-20.
• Wadlington, Warwick, The Confidence Game in American Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.
• Watson, Charles N., Jr., "Melville and the Theme of Timonism: From Pierre to The Confidence-Man." In On Melville: The Best From American Literature, Louis J. Budd and Edwin Cady, eds.. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988, pp. 172-187.
• Watters, R. E., "Herman Melville's Metaphysics of Evil." In University of Toronto Quarterly, 9 (January 1940), pp. 170-182.
• Watters, R. E., "Melville's Sociality." In American Literature, 17 (1945), pp. 35-49.
• Weaver. Raymond, "The Centennial of Herman Melville." In Nation [New York], 109 (August 2, 1919), pp. 145-46.
• Weiner, Susan, Law in Art: Melville's Major Fiction and Nineteenth-Century American Law. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1992.
• Wenke, John, Melville's Muse: Literary Creation and the Forms of Philosophical Fiction. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1995.
• Wright, Nathalia, "Form as Function in Melville." In Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 67 (1952), pp. 330-40.
• Wright, Nathalia, Melville's Use of the Bible. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1949.

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