Sources and Illustrations

Excerpts

Unless otherwise noted, the Melville texts excerpted throughout this Site are those of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of the Writings of Herman Melville, edited by Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle, published by the Northwestern University Press and The Newberry Library, and reprinted in the Library of America Series.

TEXTS NOT EXCERPTED FROM THE NORTHWESTERN-NEWBERRY SERIES:

Battle Pieces, Clarel, John Marr, and Timoleon: The standard edition of the works of Herman Melville in sixteen volumes, reissued 1963 by Russell & Russell Inc., New York.
Billy Budd, Sailor: Text edited by Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr., published by the University of Chicago Press in 1962, reprinted in the Library of America Series.

Publishing Histories

In preparing the short publishing histories of Melville's works, the following were particularly helpful:

G. Thomas Tanselle's "Chronology," and Tanselle's and Harrison Hayford's "Notes on the Texts", in the Library of America Series of Melville's works;
Watson G. Branch's "Introduction" to Melville: The Critical Heritage (which he also edited). Boston: Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1974.

Additional information on Typee was found in Harrison Hayford's "Afterward" to the Signet Classic edition of 1964.

Contemporary Criticism/Melville's Obituary Notices

The primary source for the Nineteenth-Century Melville criticism and obituary notices selected throughout this Site was Watson G. Branch's invaluable Melville: The Critical Heritage (Boston: Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1974). Supplementary excerpts were found in Hershel Parker's The Recognition of Herman Melville (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1967).

Melville's Reflections

The selections for this page were culled from a number of resources, but by far the most useful was The Letters of Herman Melville, edited by Merrell R. Davis and William H. Gilman (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960.)

Melville and Hawthorne

Some interesting details on the relationship from Hawthorne's point of view were found in Randall Stewart's Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948). Melville's letters were collected from The Letters of Herman Melville, edited by Merrell R. Davis and William H. Gilman (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960.)

Illustrations

Items designated by an asterisk (*) were found in Gay Wilson Allen's Melville and His World (New York: The Viking Press, 1971).

Home Page:
- *"Herman Melville, 1885." From the Gansevoort-Lansing Collection, New York Public Library.
- "Frontispiece to Thomas Beale's The Natural History of the Sperm Whale (London, 1839)." Courtesy Whaling Museum, Old Dartmouth Historical Society, New Bedford, MA. Found in the Penguin Classics edition of Moby-Dick (1987), Harold Beaver, editor.
Typee:
- *"From Voyage autour du monde sur la fregate `La Venus' ... Atlas Pittoresque." By Abel Du Petit-Thouars, 1841. Photo courtesy Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu.
- *"Richard Tobias Green." Photo courtesy Berkshire Athenaeum.
Omoo: *"View on Tahiti, c. 1840." From the collection of Frances D. Broderick (photo by Warren F. Broderick).
Redburn: "Scene at Savannah Harbor." Courtesy Library of Congress.
White-Jacket: *"Watercolor by William Meyers in Abstract of a Cruise in [frigate] `United States', 1843-4." From the collection of Frances D. Broderick (photo by Warren F. Broderick).
Moby-Dick: "Sketch by a New Bedford Whaleman, c. 1840." Courtesy Whaling Museum, Old Dartmouth Historical Society, New Bedford, MA. Found in the Penguin Classics edition of Moby-Dick (1987), Harold Beaver, editor.
Pierre: "Herman Melville, c. 1848." By Asa W. Twitchell. Found in The Recognition of Herman Melville, edited by Hershel Parker (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1967).
Israel Potter: "Battle of Bunker Hill." Uncredited illustration, on cover of Richard M. Ketchum's Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill (New York: Anchor Books, 1991).
The Confidence-Man: "Steamboat 'River Queen'." Courtesy U.S. Army Military Historical Institute, Carlisle, PA. Found in The Civil War: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward, with Ric Burns and Ken Burns (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990).
Battle-Pieces: Detail from "The Hornet's Nest (Battle of Shiloh, 1862)." Courtesy Dubose Collection. Found in The Civil War: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward, with Ric Burns and Ken Burns (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990).
Clarel: Detail from "The Hypaethral Temple at Philae, Called the Bed of Pharaoh." By David Roberts. Found in David Roberts: Views of Egypt and Nubia, 1995 Calendar, published by Pomegranate Calendars and Books for The Huntington Library, 1994.

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