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The critical response to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, edited by Kevin J. Hayes

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The critical response to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, edited by Kevin J. Hayes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-245) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The critical response to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

30624973

Responsibility statement

edited by Kevin J. Hayes

Series statement

Critical responses in arts and letters,, no. 13, 1057-0993

Table Of Contents

Contemporary reviews. Rhapsody run mad ; Heroics and horrors / Anonymous -- A strange, wild, weird book / George Henry Lewes -- A book of extraordinary merit ; The judgment day will hold him liable ; Vile overdaubing with a coat of book-learning and mysticism ; Wildly imaginative and truly thrilling / Anonymous -- An intellectual chowder / Evert Duyckinck -- His whole soul is rapt in his subject / Anonymous -- The Melville revival. A medley of noble impassioned thoughts / W. Clark Russell -- The practical with the ideal / H.S. Salt -- A strange, conglomerate book / William B. Cairns -- "Moby Dick" and the years to come ; Romance and adventure / Anonymous -- "Moby Dick" / E.L. Grant Watson -- A Moby-Dick testimonial. "A wayfarer" / H.W. Massingham -- Not everbody's book / Frank Swinnerton -- Great names : Herman Melville / Viola Meynell -- The crown of Melville's artistic achievement / J.C. SquireAn introduction to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : or the Whale / A.S.W. Rosenbach -- Mr. Melville's "Moby-Dick" / Carl Van Doren -- A magnificent feeling / Charles Burchfield -- Herman Melville / Thomas Moult -- Who is Melville? / Anonymous -- Footnote to Bartlett's / Christopher Morley -- Academic attention. Melville's struggle with the angel / Leon Howard -- Moby Dick : work of art / Walter E. Bezanson -- Moby-Dick and the American west / Edwin Fussell -- Moby-Dick : line and circle / John Seelye -- Ishmael's godly gamesomeness : selftaste and rhetoric in Moby-Dick / Warwick Wadlington --"Loomings" : yarns and figures in the fabric / Harrison Hayford -- Ahab gets girl, or Herman Melville goes to the movies / Edward Stone -- The madness of Ahab / Henry Nash Smith -- Herman Melville and the example of Sir Thomas Browne / Brian Foley -- Moby-Dick and the spirit of revolution / Mark Niemeyer

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