This 1992 edition includes every Melville review discovered up to now, and cites modern reprints of the reviews. Also included is a new section of reviews of the lectures Melville gave in the 1850s.
This 1992 edition includes every Melville review discovered up to now, and cites modern reprints of the reviews. Also included is a new section of reviews of the lectures Melville gave in the 1850s.
HERSHEL PARKERis H. Fletcher Brown Professor of American Romanticism at the University of Delaware and Associate General Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition ofThe Writings of Herman Melville.He is editor of several collections on Melville, including collaborations with Harrison Hayford on the Norton Critical Edition ofMoby-Dickand Norton"Moby-Dick" as Dubloonand with Brian Higgins on the G. K. HallCritical Essays on Hermann Melville's "Pierre"andCritical Essays on Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick,"and is also editor of the 1820-65 section in theNorton Anthology of American Literature.HisFlawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literary Authority in American Fictionwas published in 1984 by Northwestern University Press.