Leviathan articles

Recent articles from Leviathan

Melville's reading and marginalia: introduction.(Herman Melville)
October 1, 2008... This special issue of Leviathan, devoted to Melville's reading and marginalia, illustrates the increasing use in American literary scholarship of electronic methods of investigation, and this fuller connection to emergent digital resources in turn illustrates new research opportunities and...

One's own faith: Melville's reading of The New Testament and Psalms.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2008... As Pierre Glendinning wrestles in vain with the task of producing a book that will measure up to the titanic ambitions of his soul, Melville's persistently intrusive narrator meditates on the meaning of nature for the novelist: Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own...

Melville's Mosses review and the proclamation of Hawthorne as America's literary messiah.(Herman Melville's book review on Nathaniel Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2008... The Melville-Hawthorne friendship has long fascinated critics and biographers of both authors, as well as anyone interested in the history of American literature. (1) After Shakespeare and the Bible, Hawthorne as both man and literary artist had perhaps the greatest influence on Melville's...

Congreve and Akenside: two poetic allusions in Melville's "Fragments from a Writing Desk".(Notes)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2008... Herman Melville's "Fragments from a Writing Desk" is interesting for its evidence of the author's formative years. Published under the pseudonym "L. A. V." in two installments (4 and 18 May 1839) in the Lansingburgh Democratic Press, the "Fragments" are Melville's first published fiction. (1)...

Robert Levine and Samuel Otter, Eds. Frederick Douglass & Herman Melville: Essays in Relation.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... ROBERT LEVINE AND SAMUEL OTTER, EDS. Frederick Douglass & Herman Melville: Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 475 pp. Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville? As Robert S. Levine and Samuel Otter recognize, many readers will find their title's "and"...