Books written by Hershel Parker

Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville Vol. 11

Presents a collection of the writings of Herman Melville.
Reading Melville's Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

Now, with Isabel's letter in his hand, he girds himself to face the worst: “Thou Black Knight, that with visor down, thus confrontest me, and mockest at me; Lo! I strike through thy helm, and will see thy face, be it Gorgon!” (65–66).
Checklist of Melville Reviews

M97 Review of Longfellow , Kavanagh . Comparison Boston Daily Advertiser , June 15 , 1849 . between schoolmaster Church and Queen Hautia . Translation of part of the article in Paris Revue des M90 deux mondes , May 15 , 1849 .
Reading Melville's Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities: A Reading of the Poems

Boston: Hall, 1983. 267–68. ———. “Reading Pierre.” A Companion to Melville Studies. Ed. John Bryant. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1986. 211–39. Howard, Leon. Herman Melville: A Biography. Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, ...
The Writings: Typee

The Writings: Typee
Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literary Authority in American Fiction

The Fitzgerald essay , completed in the summer of 1973 , was an elaborate though far from exhaustive analysis of how the rearranging of the novel into chronological order damaged or destroyed the aesthetic effects which had been set up ...
Reading Billy Budd

Early in 1886 Melville also received from James Billson , a young English admirer of Thomson , a “ semi - manuscript ” edition of Edward FitzGerald's free translation of the Rubaiyat . ( At a time when correct copies were not available ...
Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative

As I brought my biographical perspective to Melville's Pierre (and to works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Henry James, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, and others), I repeatedly saw disastrous ...
Herman Melville: A Biography

Early in 1886 Melville received from James Billson a “ semi - manuscript ” edition of Fitzgerald's free translation of the Rubáiyát , a gift that only confirmed his prior sense of Omar Khayyám as “ that sublime old infidel ” ( his words ...
Herman Melville: 1819-1851

... common pleas in behalf of a slave , Robert Lucas , who had come into the jurisdiction of Massachusetts by arriving on the United States and was being held in custody . The purser , Edward Fitzgerald , a Virginian , had enlisted his ...
Herman Melville: A Biography

The first of a two-volume biography of Melville traces his life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of Moby-Dick.
Herman Melville: 1851-1891

Traces Melville's life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of "Moby-Dick," and forty years later, to his death, in obscurity
Melville: The Making of the Poet

Dickens, Charles. The Letters of Charles Dickens. The Pilgrim Edition. Oxford: Clarendon. Vol. 4, 1844–1846, ed. Kathleen Tillotson, 1977. Vol. 5, 1847–1849, ed. Graham Storey and K. J. Fielding, 1981. Vol. 6, 1850–1852, ed.
Taïpi

"Taïpi et Omou retracent le récit des pérégrinations d'Herman Melville en Polynésie.
Critical Essays on Herman Melville's Moby Dick

This volume in the distinguished series contains both a sizable gathering of early reviews and a broad selection of more modern scholarship as well. Among the authors of reprinted articles...
Critical Essays on Herman Melville's Pierre, Or, The Ambiguities

Critical Essays on Herman Melville's Pierre, Or, The Ambiguities