Criticism: The Piazza Tales to Billy Budd

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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