The writings of Herman Melville
Contributors: Hayford, Harrison.; Parker, Hershel.; Tanselle, G. Thomas 1934-
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: [Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 893
Other titles: Northwestern-Newberry edition of the writings of Herman Melville.
Work titles: Works.
Description: In Moby Dick Melville set out to write a "mighty book" on "a mighty theme." The editors of this critical text affirm that he succeeded. Nevertheless, their prolonged examination of the novel reveals textual flaws and anomalies that help to explain Melville's fears that his great work was in some ways a hash or a botch. A lengthy historical note also gives a fresh account of Melville's earlier literary career and his working conditions as he wrote; it also analyzes the book's contemporary reception and outlines how it finally achieved fame. Other sections review theories of the book's genesis, detail the circumstances of its publication, and present documents closely relating to the story. -- Amazon.com.
Notes: Edition originated under the auspices of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America)

Vol. 8, p. 286-394 contains a facsim. of Life and remarkable adventures of Israel R. Potter.  Providence : Printed by H. Trumbull, 1824.

Half-title.  Each vol. has special t.p.

"The Northwestern-Newberry ed." --

Trinity Library titles are catalogued separately by title and classed together in PS2380 .F68.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Typee: a peep at Polynesian life.; title: v. 2. Omoo: a narrative of adventures in the South Seas.; title: v. 3. Mardi.; title: v. 4. Redburn.; title: v. 5. White-jacket.; title: v. 6. Moby-Dick or the whale.; title: v. 7. Pierre or the ambiguities.; title: v. 8. Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile.; title: v. 9. The piazza tales and other prose pieces, 1839-1860.; title: v. 10. The confidence-man: his masquerade.; title: v. 12. Clarel: a poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land.; title: v. 14. Correspondence.; title: v. 15. Journals.