Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction: Moby-Dick and the Aesthetics of Response Contemporary Reviews Rhapsody Run Mad, Anonymous Heroics and Horrors, Anonymous A Strange, Wild, Weird Book by George Henry Lewes A Book of Extraordinary Merit, Anonymous The Judgment Day Will Hold Him Liable, Anonymous Vile Overdaubing with a Coat of Book-Learning and Mysticism, Anonymous Wildly Imaginative and Truly Thrilling, Anonymous An Intellectual Chowder by Evert Duyckinck His Whole Soul Is Rapt in His Subject, Anonymous The Melville Revival A Medley of Noble Impassioned Thoughts by W. Clark Russell The Practical with the Ideal by H.S. Salt A Strange, Conglomerate Book by William B. Cairns "Moby-Dick" and the Years to Come, Anonymous Romance and Adventure, Anonymous "Moby-Dick" by E.L. Grant Watson A Moby-Dick Testimonial "A Wayfarer" (H.W. Massingham) Not Everybody's Book by Frank Swinnerton Great Names: Herman Melville by Viola Meynell The Crown of Melville's Artistic Achievement by J.C. Squire An Introduction to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: or the Whale by A.S.W. Rosenbach Mr. Melville's "Moby-Dick" by Carl Van Doren A Magnificent Feeling by Charles Burchfield Herman Melville by Thomas Moult Who is Melville?, Anonymous Footnote to Bartlett's by Christopher Morley Academic Attention Melville's Struggle with the Angel by Leon Howard Moby-Dick: Work of Art by Walter E. Bezanson Moby-Dick and the American West by Edwin Fussell Moby-Dick: Line and Circle by John Seelye Ishmael's Godly Gamesomeness: Selftaste and Rhetoric in Moby-Dick by Warwick Wadlington "Loomings": Yarns and Figures in the Fabric by Harrison Hayford Ahab Gets Girl, or Herman Melville Goes to the Movies by Edward Stone The Madness of Ahab by Henry Nash Smith Herman Melville and the Example of Sir Thomas Browne by Brian Foley Moby-Dick and the Spirit of Revolution by Mark Niemeyer Selected Additional Readings Index

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Chronologically-arranged selections of criticism and reviews trace the reception of Melville's most popular work from the 19th century to the present.

About the Author

KEVIN J. HAYES is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is the author of Captain John Smith: A Reference Guide (1991) and co-author of Checklist of Melville Reviews (1991). He is currently reconstructing the library of William Byrd of Westover.