Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews
, by Edited by Brian Higgins , Hershel Parker- ISBN: 9780521121156 | 0521121159
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 10/1/2009
Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews reprints virtually all the known contemporary reviews of his writings from the 1840s until his death in 1891. Many of the reviews are reprinted from hard-to-locate contemporary newspapers and periodicals. These materials document the response of the reviewers to specific works and show the course of Melville's nineteenth century reputation as travel writer, romancer, short-story writer, and poet.