Herman Melville
(1819-1891)

The new haunted (fore)castle and the new prowling monster

Internet Resources: The Life and Works of Herman Melville

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ARVIN, Newton. “Melville and the Gothic Novel.” [GGI: 1690]. 

BALAAM, Peter. “‘Misery’s Mathematics’: Mourning, Compensation and Reality in Emerson, Warner and Melville.” Dissertation Abstracts International 61:5 (2000): 1836 (Princeton University).

BOUDREAU, Gordon V. “Herman Melville: Master Mason of the Gothic.” [GGI: 1691.

BOUDREAU, Gordon V. “Of Pale Ushers and Gothic Piles: Melville’s Architectural Symbology.” [GGI: 1692] 

COOK, Richard M. “The Grotesque in the Fiction of Herman Melville.” [GGI: 1693]. 

COOK, Richard M. “Evolving the Inscrutable: The Grotesque in Melville’s Fiction.” [GGI: 1694]. 

COVIELLO, Peter. “The American in Charity: ‘Benito Cereno’ and Gothic Anti-Sentimentality.” Studies in American Fiction 30 (2002): 155-80.

FISHER, Benjamin F. IV “Gothic Possibilities in Moby-Dick” (pp. 115-22). In Gothick Origins and Innovations. eds. Victor Sage and Allan Lloyd Smith. Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA: Rodopi; Costerus New Series 91, 1994.

GOLDNER, Ellen J. “Other(ed) Ghosts: Gothicism and the Bonds of Reason in Melville, Chesnutt, and Morrison.” Melus 24:1 (1999): 59-83.

HUTCHINSON, William H. “Demonology in Mel-ville’s Vocabulary of Evil.” [GGI: 1697]. 

KOSOK, Heinz. Die Bedeutung der Gothic Novel für das erzählwerk Herman Melvilles. [GGI: 1698]. 

LACKEY, Chris. “‘More Spiritual Terrors’: The Bible and Gothic Imagination in Moby Dick.” [GGII: 0975]. 

LEE, A. Robert “Melville, Herman (1819-1891)” (pp. 160-62). In The Handbook to Gothic Literature, ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

MACPHERSON, Jay. “Waiting for Shiloh: Transgression and Fall in Melville’s ‘The Bell Tower.’” In Gothic Fictions: Prohibition/Transgression. [GGII: 976]. 

MAGISTRALE, Tony. “‘More Demon than Man’: Melville’s Ahab as Gothic Villain.” [GGII: 0977]. 

MANDEL, Ruth B. “Herman Melville and the Gothic Outlook.” [GGI: 1701]. 

MCALEER, John J. “Poe and the Gothic Elements in Moby Dick.” [GGI: 1702]. 

MCLOUGHLIN, Michael. “Big Hearts Strike Together: Melville’s Dead Letters to Emerson.” Dissertation Abstracts International 61:4 (2000): 1404 (University of South Carolina).

MILES, Robert. “Melville’s Pierre and the Origins of the Gothic.” ELH 66:1 (1999): 157-77.

ROSENTHAL, Bernard. “Melville, Marryat, and the Evil-Eyed Villain.” [GGI: 1705]. 

RYAN, Steven T. “The Gothic Formula of ‘Bartle-by.’” [GGI: 1706]. 

SHETTY, Nalini V. “Melville’s Use of the Gothic Tradition.” In Studies in American Literature: Essays in Honour of William Mulder. [GGI: 1707]. 

THOMSON, Douglass H. “Herman Melville” (pp. 290-94). In Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide, eds. Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller, and Frederick S. Frank. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

TRIMPI, Helen P. “Melville’s Use of Demonology and Witchcraft in Moby Dick.” [GGI: 1708].

WEINAUER, Ellen. “Women, Ownership, and Gothic Manhood in Pierre" (XXX). In Melville and Women, ed. Elizabeth Schultz and Haskell Springer. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2006.