num_pages: 586
description: Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews reprints virtually all the known contemporary reviews of his writings from the 1840s until his death in 1891. Many of the reviews are reprinted from hard-to-locate contemporary newspapers and periodicals. These materials document the response of the reviewers to specific works and show the course of Melville's nineteenth century reputation as travel writer, romancer, short-story writer, and poet.
language: English
title: Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews
titlecomplete: Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews (American Critical Archives, Series Number 6)
publisher: Cambridge University Press