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The New Melville Studies
This collection reimagines Melville as both a theorist and a writer, approaching his works as philosophical forms in their own right.
Whipscars and Tattoos
In this original study, Geoffrey Sanborn presents a fresh interpretation of the villanous Magua in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (1826) and of the dignified harpooner Queequeg in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). Through careful historical research, Sanborn has determined that both authors relied heavily on contemporary accounts of the indigenous natives of New Zealand, the Maori, to develop their iconic characters. Cooper drew heavily on the account of Te Aara in John Liddiard Nicholas's Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand (1817) while Melville studied the personal history of Te Pehi Kupe in George Lillie Craik's The New Zealanders (1830) to flesh out his characterizat...
Critical Companion to Herman Melville
Critical Companion to Herman Melville examines the life and work of a writer who spent much of his career in obscurity.
