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Herman Melville : Bartleby the Scrivener / Maryland Public Television.
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Herman Melville : A Concise Biography / Hossick, Malcolm.
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Herman Melville: 1819-1891 (4:03) -- Changing Fortunes of the Melville (3:19) -- Melville's First Writing (3:22) -- Melville in New Bedford (4:11) -- Aboard a Whaling Ship (2:26) -- Whale Blubber (1:41) -- Real Events in Fiction (3:46) -- Melville's Novels (2:52) -- Literary Disaster (1:58) -- Posthumous Success (1:18) -- Credits: 'Herman Melville: A Concise Biography' (0:42) -- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891): An Overview of His Work (3:26)…”
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Herman Melville : stargazer / Brett Zimmerman.
Published 1998Full text (Emerson users only)
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Herman Melville : modernity and the material text / Katie McGettigan.
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Herman Melville.
Published 1961Table of Contents: “…Herman Melville; Selected Bibliography.…”
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Herman Melville : an Introduction.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Herman Melville; Contents; Texts and Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part I Introduction; 1 Melville 's Life; 2 "Agatha " and the Invention of Narrative; Part II Melville 's Early Yarns; 3 "Making Literary Use of the Story ":Typee and Omoo; 4 "A Regular Story Founded on Striking Incidents ": Mardi, Redburn, and White-Jacket; Part III Writing New Gospel in Moby-Dick and Pierre; 5 "So Much of Pathos & So Much of Depth ":Moby-Dick; 6 "All Tender Obligations ":Pierre; Part IV Turning a New Leaf:Short Fiction, Israel Potter, and The Con . dence-Man.…”
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The composition of Herman Melville / Rick Mitchell.
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Herman Melville's Moby-Dick / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Published 1986Table of Contents: “…Call me Ishmael / Charles Olson -- In nomine diaboli / Henry A. Murray -- Herman Melville / David Simpson --The career of Ishmael's self-transcendence / Rowland A. …”
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