Criticism:
The Piazza Tales to Billy Budd
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Herman Melville
The Piazza Tales
- Franklin, H. Bruce, "Apparent Symbol of Despotic Command:
Melville's Benito Cereno." In New England
Quarterly, 34 (December 1961).
- Guttmann, Allen, "The Enduring Innocence of Captain Amasa
Delano." In Boston University Studies in English, 5
(Spring 1961), pp. 35-45.
- Jaffe, David, "Bartleby the Scrivener" and "Bleak House":
Melville's Debt to Dickens. Arlington, VA: Mardi Press,
1981.
- Marx, Leo, "Melville's Parable of the Walls." In Sewanee
Review, 61 (October 1953), pp. 602-627.
- Oliver, Egbert S., "A Second Look at Bartleby." In
College English, 6 (May 1945), pp. 431-439.
The Confidence-Man
- Bergmann, Johannes, "The Original Confidence-Man." In
American Quarterly, 21 (1969), pp. 560-77.
- Bowen, Merlin, "Tactics of Indirection on Melville's The
Confidence-Man." In Studies in the Novel, 1 (Winter
1969), pp. 401-420.
- Branch, Watson G., "The Genesis, Composition, and Structure
of The Confidence-Man." In Nineteenth-Century
Fiction, 27 (March 1973), pp. 424-448.
- Cawelti, John G., "Some Notes on the Structure of The
Confidence-Man." In On Melville: The Best From American
Literature, Louis J. Budd and Edwin Cady, eds.. Durham, NC:
Duke University Press, 1988, pp. 62-72.
- Foster, Elizabeth, Introduction to The
Confidence-Man. New York: Hendricks House, 1952.
- Keyser, Elizabeth, "'Quite an Original': The Cosmopolitan in
The Confidence-Man." In Texas Studies in Literature
and Language, 15 (1973).
- Oliver, Egbert S., "Melville's Picture of Emerson and Thoreau
in The Confidence-Man." In College English, 8
(November 1946), pp. 61-72.
- Schroeder, James, "Sources and Symbols for Melville's The
Confidence-Man." In Publications of the Modern Language
Association, 66 (June 1951), pp. 363-380.
- 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.
- Smith, Paul, "The Confidence-Man and the Literary
World of New York." In Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 16
(March 1962), pp. 329-337.
Clarel
- Arvin, Newton, "Melville's Clarel." In Hudson
Review, 14 (1961), pp. 298-300.
- Ault, N. A., "The Sea Imagery in Melville's Clarel."
In Research Studies of the State College of Washington,
27 (1959), pp. 72-84.
- Baym, Nina, "The Erotic Motif in Melville's Clarel."
In Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 16 (Summer
1974), pp. 315-328.
- Camp, James Edwin, "An Unfulfilled Romance: Image, Symbol,
and Allegory in Herman Melville's Clarel." Ph.D.
dissertation, University of Michigan, 1965.
- Fogle, Richard Harter, "Melville's Clarel: Doubt and
Belief." In Tulane Studies in English, 10 (1960), pp.
101-16.
- Kenny, Vincent S., "Herman Melville's Clarel." Ph.D.
dissertation, New York University, 1965.
- Knapp, Joseph G., S.J., "Tortured Torturer of Reluctant
Rhymes: Melville's Clarel, an Interpretation of Post-
Civil War America." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota,
1962.
- Knapp, Joseph G., S.J., Tortured Synthesis: The Meaning
of Melville's "Clarel". New York: Philosophical Library,
1972.
- Packard, Robert Joslin, "A Study of Herman Melville's
Clarel." Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1963.
- Short, Bryan C., "Form as Vision in Herman Melville's
Clarel." In On Melville: The Best
From American Literature, Louis J. Budd and Edwin Cady,
eds.. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988, pp. 221-237.
- Shurr, William H., "The Symbolic Structure of Herman
Melville's Clarel." Ph.D. dissertation, University of
North Carolina, 1968.
- Wells, Henry W., "Herman Melville's Clarel." In
College English, 4 (1943), pp. 478-82.
- Wright, Nathalia, "A Source for Melville's Clarel:
Dean Stanley's Sinai and Palestine." In Modern
Language Notes, 62 (1947), pp. 110-16.
Billy Budd
- Braswell, William, "Melville's Billy Budd as 'An
Inside Narrative'." In American Literature, 29 (May
1957), pp. 133-146.
- Brodtkorb, Paul, Jr., "The Definitive Billy Budd:
'But aren't it all a sham?'." In Publications of the Modern
Language Association, 82 (December 1967), pp. 602-612.
- Browne, Ray B., "Billy Budd: Gospel of Democracy."
In Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 17 (March 1963), pp. 321-
337.
- Cook, Margaret Seligman, "Fatal Traps, Fatal Consequences:
John White Webster and Billy Budd." In Melville
Society Extracts, no. 103 (December 1995), pp. 19-21.
- Fite, Olive L., "Billy Budd, Claggart, and Schopenhauer." In
Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 23 (1968), pp. 336-43.
- Fogle, Richard Harter, "Billy Budd: The Order of the
Fall." In Nineteenth-Century American Fiction, 15
(December 1960), pp. 189-205.
- Glick, William, "Expediency and Absolute Morality in
Billy Budd." In Publications of the Modern Language
Association, 68 (March 1953), pp. 103-110.
- Ives, C. B., "Billy Budd and the Articles of War."
In American Literature, 34 (March 1962).
- Kilbourne, W. G., Jr., "Montaigne and Captain Vere." In
American Literature, 33 (January 1962), pp. 514-517.
- Reich, Charles A., "The Tragedy of Justice in Billy
Budd." In Twentieth Century Interpretations of "Billy
Budd", Howard P. Vincent, ed.. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1971.
- Rosenberry, Edward H., "The Problem of Billy Budd."
In Publications of the Modern Language Association, 80
(December 1965), pp. 489-498.
- Rosenthal, Bernard, "Elegy for Jack Chase." In Studies in
Romanticism, 10 (Summer 1971), pp. 213-229.
- Rosenthal, Bernard, and Reid, B. L., "Old Melville's Fable."
In Massachusetts Review, 9 (Summer 1968), pp. 529-546.
- Schiffman, Joseph, "Melville's Final Stage, Irony: A
Re-examination of Billy Budd Criticism." In American
Literature, 22 (May 1950), pp. 128-136.
- Sten, Christopher W., "Vere's Use of the "Forms": Means and
Ends in Billy Budd." In On Melville: The Best
From American Literature, Louis J. Budd and Edwin Cady,
eds.. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988, pp. 188-202.
- Vincent, Howard P., ed., Twentieth Century
Interpretations of "Billy Budd". Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1971.
- Watson, E. L. Grant, "Melville's Testament of Acceptance." In
New England Quarterly, 6 (June 1933), pp. 319-327.
- Willett, Ralph W., "Nelson and Vere: Hero and Victim in
Billy Budd, Sailor." In Publications of the Modern
Language Association, 82 (October 1967), pp. 370-376.
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