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Herman Melville

The Contemporary Reviews

Brian Higgins editor Hershel Parker editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:17th Sep '09

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This volume reprints virtually all the known contemporary reviews of Herman Melville's writings from the 1840s until his death in 1891.

Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews reprints virtually all the known contemporary reviews of Herman Melville's writings from the 1840s until his death in 1891. Many of his reviews are reprinted from hard-to-locate contemporary newspapers and periodicals. These materials document the response of the reviewers to specific worlds and share the course of Melville's nineteenth century reputation as travel writer, romancer, short-story writer, and poet.

Review of the hardback: 'A beautifully presented, meticulously researched volume.' Borderlines

ISBN: 9780521121156

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 31mm

Weight: 810g

588 pages