Criticism: Moby-Dick and Pierre

Moby-Dick

• Barbour, James, "The Composition of Moby-Dick." In On Melville: The Best From American Literature, Louis J. Budd and Edwin Cady, eds.. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988, pp. 203-220.
• Barbour, James, "The Town-Ho's Story: Melville's Original Whale." In ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 21 (2nd quarter, 1975)."
• Bell, Millicent, "Pierre Bayle and Moby-Dick." In Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, vol. 66 (September 1951).
• Betts, William W., "Moby-Dick: Melville's Faust." In Lock Haven Bulletin, 1 (1959), pp. 31-34.
• Bezanson, Walter, "Moby-Dick: Work of Art." In Moby-Dick Centennial Essays, Tyrus Hillway and Luther S. Mansfield, eds. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1953.
• Birrell, Augustine, "The Great White Whale." In The Athenaeum, January 28, 1921, pp. 99-100.
• Brodhead, Richard, ed., New Essays on "Moby-Dick". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
• Brotkorb, Paul, Ishmael's White World: A Phenomenological Reading of Moby-Dick. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965.
• Camus, Albert, "Melville: Un Createur de mythes." In Moby-Dick as Doubloon: Essays and Extracts (1851-1970), Hershel Parker and Harrison Hayford, eds. New York: Norton, 1970.
• Eldridge, Herbert G., "'Careful Disorder': The Structure of Moby-Dick." In American Literature, 39 (May 1967).
• Firestone, Evan R., "Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and the Abstract Expressionists." In Arts Magazine, 54 (1980), p. 120.
• Gleim, W. S., "A Theory of Moby-Dick." In New England Quarterly, 2 (July 1929), pp. 402-419.
• Heflin, Wilson L., "The Source of Ahab's Lordship Over the Level Loadstone." In American Literature, 20 (1948), pp. 323-27.
• Heimert, Alan, "Moby-Dick and American Political Symbolism." In American Quarterly, vol. 15 (Winter 1963).
• Hillway, Tyrus, and Mansfield, Luther S., Moby-Dick Centennial Essays. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1953.
• Howard, Leon, "Melville's Struggle with the Angel." In Modern Language Quarterly, 1 (June 1940), pp. 195-206.
• Jaffe, David, The Stormy Petrel and the Whale: Some Origins of "Moby-Dick". Baltimore: Port City Press, 1976.
• Parker, Hershel and Hayford, Harrison, eds, Moby-Dick as Doubloon: Essays and Extracts (1851-1970). New York: Norton, 1970.
• Paul, Sherman, "Melville's The 'Town-Ho's' Story." In On Melville: The Best From American Literature, Louis J. Budd and Edwin Cady, eds.. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988, pp. 40-49.
• Pommer, Henry F., "Herman Melville and the Wake of the Essex." In American Literature, 20 (November 1948).
• Smith, Henry Nash, "The Madness of Ahab." In Democracy and the Novel: Popular Resistance to Classic American Writers. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978, pp. 35-55.
• Stern, Milton R., Discussions of Moby-Dick. Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1960.
• Stewart, George R., "The Two Moby-Dicks." In American Literature, 25 (January 1954), pp. 417-48.
• Strauch, Carl F., "Ishmael: Time and Personality in Moby-Dick." In Studies in the Novel, 1 (Winter 1969).
• Tanselle, G. Thomas, A Checklist of Editions of Moby-Dick, 1851-1976. Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1976.
• Van Cromphout, Gustaaf, "Moby-Dick: The Transformation of the Faustian Ethos." In On Melville: The Best From American Literature, Louis J. Budd and Edwin Cady, eds.. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988, pp. 238-253.
• Vargish, Thomas, "Gnostic Mythos in Moby-Dick." In Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, vol. 81 (June 1966).
• Vincent, Howard R., The Trying-Out of Moby-Dick. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949.
• Watson, E.L. Grant, "Moby-Dick." In London Mercury, 3 (December 1920), pp. 180-186.
• Woodson, Thomas, "Ahab's Greatness: Prometheus as Narcissus." In ELH: A Journal of English Literary History, 33 (September 1966).

Pierre

• Braswell, William, "The Satirical Temper of Melville's Pierre." In American Literature, 7 (January 1936), pp. 424-38.
• Braswell, William, "The Early Love Scenes in Melville's Pierre." In American Literature, 22 (November 1950), pp. 283-89.
• Braswell, William, "Melville's Opinion of Pierre." In American Literature, 23 (May 1951), pp. 246-50.
• Damon, S. Foster, "Pierre the Ambiguous." In Hound and Horn, 2 (January-March 1929), pp. 107-18.
• Giovannini, G., "Melville's Pierre and Dante's Inferno." In Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 64 (March 1949), pp. 70-78.
• Gollin, Rita, "Pierre's Metamorphosis of Dante's Inferno." In American Literature, 39 (January 1968), pp. 542-45.
• Kissane, James, "Imagery, Myth, and Melville's Pierre." In American Literature, 26 (January 1955), pp. 564-72.
• Lueders, Edward G., "The Melville-Hawthorne Relationship in Pierre and The Blithedale Romance." In Western Humanities Review, 4 (Autumn 1950), pp. 323-34.
• Mogan, Joseph J., Jr., "Pierre and Manfred: Melville's Study of the Byronic Hero." In Papers on English Language and Literature, 1 (Summer 1965), pp. 230-40.
• Moorman, Charles, "Melville's Pierre and the Fortunate Fall." In American Literature, 25 (March 1953), pp. 13-30.
• Moorman, Charles, "Melville's Pierre in the City." In American Literature, 27 (January 1956), pp. 571-77.
• Nelson, Raymond J., "The Art of Herman Melville: The Author of Pierre." In Yale Review, 59 (Winter 1970), pp. 197-214.
• Schless, Howard H., "Flaxman, Dante, and Melville's Pierre." In Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 64 (February 1960), pp. 65-82.
• Seelye, John D., "'Ungraspable Phantom': Reflections of Hawthorne in Pierre and The Confidence-Man." In Studies in the Novel, 1, No. 4 (1969), pp. 436-443.
• Watkins, Floyd C., "Melville's Plotinus Plinlimmon and Pierre." In Reality and Myth, ed. William E. Walker and Robert L. Welker. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1964, pp. 39-51.
• Watson, E. L. Grant, "Melville's Pierre." In New England Quarterly, 3 (April 1930), pp. 195-234.
• Wright, Nathalia, "Pierre: Herman Melville's Inferno." In American Literature, 32 (May 1960), pp. 167-81.
• Yaggy, Elinor, "Shakespeare and Melville's Pierre." In Boston Public Library Quarterly, 6 (January 1954), pp. 43-51.

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