Contemporary Criticism

"The Melville Collection in The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, contains photostatic, typewritten, or original copies of almost all the known contemporary reviews of Melville's books." --Watson G. Branch, Melville: The Critical Heritage (p. xviii).

• Branch, Watson G., ed., Melville: The Critical Heritage. Boston: Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1974.
• Hetherington, Hugh W., Melville's Reviewers, British and American, 1846-1891. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.
• Miller, Perry, The Raven and the Whale: The War of Words and Wits in the Era of Poe and Melville. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956.
• Parker, Hershel, ed., The Recognition of Herman Melville. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1967.
• Parker, Hershel, "A Reexamination of Melville's Reviewers." In American Literature, 42 (May 1970), pp. 226-32.
• Rountree, Thomas J., ed., Critics on Melville. Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1972.
• Scharnhorst, Gary, "More Nineteenth-Century Melville Reviews." In Melville Society Extracts, no. 89 (June 1992), pp. 1-6.
• Sealts, Merton M., Jr., "Melville and Richard Henry Stoddard." In American Literature, 43 (November 1971), pp. 359-70.
• Stafford, John, The Literary Criticism of "Young America". Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952.
• Thorp, Willard, ed., Herman Melville: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes. American Writers Series. New York: American Book Company, 1938.
• Yannella, Donald and Parker, Hershel, eds., The Endless, Winding Way in Melville: New Charts by Kring and Carey. Glassboro, NJ: Melville Society, 1981.

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