SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

On Herman Melville

Bezanson, Walter E.  “Historical Note” in Herman Melville, Israel Potter:  His Fifty Years of Exile.  Ed. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle.  Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and The Newberry Library, 1982.  Notices the early plan of Melville to write “a work whose major narrative line would be from another book” (178).

Hayford, Harrison, and Walter Blair, "Introduction" to Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas.  New York: Hendricks House, 1969.  Nicely documents Melville’s early, habitual plagiarism.

Hayford, Harrison.  Melville’s Prisoners.  Evanston, Illinois:  Northwestern University Press, 2003.

Higgins, Brian, and Hershel Parker, eds.  Herman Melville:  The Contemporary Reviews.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Hoyle, Norman E.  “Melville as Magazinist.”  Unpublished doctoral dissertation.  Duke University, 1960.  See pp. 25-44 on Melville’s possible authorship in 1849 of unsigned reviews in the Literary World, specifically of books relating to western travel and exploration.

Melville, Herman. Correspondence.  Ed. Lynn Horth.  Evanston and Chicago:  Northwestern University Press and The Newberry Library, 1993.

Newman, Lea Bertani Vozar.  “Melville’s Copy of Dante:  Evidence of New Connections between the Commedia and Mardi.”  Studies in the American Renaissance 1993:  305-338.

__________.  “Marginalia as Revelation:  Melville’s ‘Lost’ Copy of Dante and a Private Purgatorial Note.”  Melville Society Extracts 92 (1993):  4.

Parker, Hershel.  Herman Melville:  A Biography.  2vols.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996 and 2002.

Renker, Elizabeth.  Strike Through the Mask:  Herman Melville and the Scene of Writing.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Sealts, Merton M., Jr.  Melville’s Reading.  Revised and enlarged edition.  Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.

Vincent, Howard P.  The Tailoring of Melville’s White-Jacket.  Evanston, Illinois:  Northwestern University Press, 1970.

__________.  The Trying-out of Moby-Dick.  Kent, Ohio:  Kent State University Press, 1980.

On Melville and the West

Bakker, J.  “Melville and the West:  Or, Israel Potter Reconsidered.”  Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters 19 (1989):  18-36].

Fussell, Edwin.  Frontier:  American Literature and the American West.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1965.

Heyne, Eric.  “The Lasting Frontier:  Reinventing America.”  Introduction to Desert, Garden, Margin, Range: Literature on the American Frontier, ed. Eric Heyne.  New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992.

Nichol, John W.  “Melville and the Midwest.”  PMLA 66 (1951): 613-625.

Niemeyer, Mark.  “Manifest Destiny and Melville’s Moby-Dick:  Or, Enlightenment Universalism and Aggressive Nineteenth-Century Expansionism in a National Text.”  Q/W/E/R/T/Y (Arts, Littératures et Civilisations du Monde Anglophone) 9 (1999):  301-311.

Oshima, Yukiko.  "Native America in The Confidence-Man."  Leviathan 8 (October 2006): 51-60.

Roripaugh, Robert.  “Melville’s Typee and Frontier Travel Literature of the 1830’s and 1840’s.  South Dakota Review 19 (Winter 1982):  46-64.

Scherting, Jack.  “Tracking the Pequod Along The Oregon Trail:  The Influence of Parkman’s Narrative on Imagery and Characters in Moby-Dick.”  Western American Literature 22 (Spring 1987):  3-15.

Smith, Henry Nash.  Virgin Land:  The American West as Symbol and Myth.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, 1970.

Stimson, Frederick S.  “The Influence of Travel Books on Early American Hispanism.”  Americas 11 (October 1954):  155-159.

Sumner, D. Nathan.  “The American West in Melville’s Mardi and The Confidence-Man.”  Research Studies 36 (1968):  37-49.

On Philip St. George Cooke

Devoto, Bernard.  The Year of Decision:  1846.  Boston:  Little, Brown and Company, 1943.

Gardner, Hamilton.  “Captain Philip St. George Cooke and the March of the 1^st Dragoons to the Rocky Mountains in 1845.”  Colorado Magazine 30 (October 1953):  246-269.

__________.  “Romance at Old Cantonment Leavenworth:  The Marriage of 2d Lt. Philip St. George Cooke in 1830.”  Kansas Historical Quarterly 22 (Summer 1956):  97-114.

Meyers, John Myers.  The Saga of Hugh Glass:  Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 1976.

Young, Otis.  The West of Philip St. George Cooke.  Glendale:  Arthur H. Clark, 1955.

Plundered Sources in “Scenes Beyond the Western Border”

Connelley, William E., ed.  “A Journal of the Santa Fe Trail.”  Mississippi Valley Historical Review 12 (June and September, 1925):  72-98; and 227-255.  Cooke’s 1843 Santa Fe Journal, now filed with Letters Received, Adjutant General’s Office.  National Archives, Record Group 94.

Cooke, Philip St. George.  “Sketches of the Great West.”  Washington Daily Union (6 October 1845): 534.

Parkman, Francis, Jr.  The California and Oregon Trail:  Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life.  New York:  George P. Putnam, 1849. 

Pelzer, Louis, ed.  The Prairie Logbooks:  Dragoon Campaigns to the Pawnee Villages in 1844, and to the Rocky Mountains in 1845, by Lieutenant J. Henry Carleton.  (Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 1983).  Abridged version of Carleton’s “Log-Books” and “Occidental Reminiscences,” originally published 1844-1846 in the New York sporting and humor magazine, Spirit of the Times.  A major source for the matter of 1845 in “Scenes Beyond the Western Border,” Carleton’s Logbooks also feature a profile of “The Oregon Emigrants” that Herman Melville reworked in the prose introduction to John Marr and other Sailors (1891).

Report of a Summer Campaign to the Rocky Mountains &c., in 1845.  29^th Congress, 1^st Session, Senate Executive Document 1 (1845).

Schubert, Frank N., ed.  March to South Pass:  Lieutenant William B. Franklin’s Journal of the Kearny Expedition of 1845.  Engineer Historical Studies 1. Washington, D.C.:  Historical Division, Office of Administrative Services, Office of the Chief of Engineers, 1979.  Edits the “Report of Lt. Franklin of the Corps of Top’l Engineers to Col. S. W. Kearny 1^st Dragoons commanding the Expedition to the South Pass of the Rocky Mts 1845.”  Now filed with Letters Received, Topographical Bureau, National Archives, Record Group 77.

“St. George.”  “Oregon, Ho!”  First printed under the heading, “Editors’ Correspondence” in the Washington National Intelligencer (15 July 1845).  Reprinted in the NY Spectator and Littell’s Living Age (23 August 1845).

Turner, Henry S.  “Journal of an Expedition Performed in the Summer of 1845 by 5 Companies of the 1^st Dragoons under the Command of Colonel S. W. Kearny.”  Letters Received, Adjutant General’s Office, 1822-1860.  National Archives, Record Group 94.