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Academy, the 97–98 Allen, Ethan 3, 21, 74 Anacreon 46 Anderson, CR Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85480-1 - The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville Kevin J. Hayes Index More information Index Academy, The 97–98 Bell, Robert 7 Allen, Ethan 3, 21, 74 “Benito Cereno,” 20, 21, 22, 26, 74, 75, Anacreon 46 76, 77–81, 119, 121 Anderson, C. R. Benjamin, Walter 17, 35 Melville in the South Seas 120 Bennett, Arnold 118, 120 Aristotle Bentley, Richard 7, 8, 48, 113, 116, 117 Poetics 63 Bentley’s Miscellany 7 “Armies of the Wilderness, The,” 89 Berington, Simon Arvin, Newton 42, 95 Memoirs of Sigr Gaudentio di Lucca Ashbery, John 122 29 “At the Hostelry,” 99 Berkeley, George 41 Atlantic 88 Berryman, John 93 Augustine 46 Dream Songs 93, 96 Bezanson, Walter 49, 94, 97 Bacchus 46 Bierstadt, Albert 102 Bacon, Francis 46 Billy Budd 11, 13, 17, 20, 25, 26, 101, Bajazet 46 105–111, 121 Balzac, Honorede´ Billy Budd and Other Prose Pieces 117 Colonel Chabert 86 “Billy in the Darbies,” 105 S´eraphita 107 Blair, Hugh Barrymore, John 117 Lectures on Rhetoric 43–44 Barthes, Roland 71 Blake, William 97 “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” 15, 20, 26, Borges, Jorge Luis 117 76, 81, 85–86 Boswell, James 8 Battle-Pieces 11, 22, 25, 26, 87–92, 99, Brown, John 87–88 114 Browne, Thomas 41 Baudelaire, Charles 115 Works 8 Beaumont, Francis Browning, Robert 99–100, 105 Fifty Comedies and Tragedies 8 Burchfield, Charles 21 Beckett, Samuel 122 BurgundyClubsketches 11,26,100–105 Beckford, William Burton, Robert 41 Vathek 8 Anatomy of Melancholy 41 Beethoven, Ludwig van 60 Butler, Samuel Fifth Symphony 60 Hudibras 36 Sixth Symphony 60 Byron, George Gordon 80 135 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85480-1 - The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville Kevin J. Hayes Index More information 136 Index Caesar 13 Cultivator (Albany) 113 Camoes,˜ Lu´ıs de Curtis, G. W. 80 Lusiad, The 31 Canute I, king of England 46 Dana, Richard Henry, Jr 73 Carax, Leos´ “Daniel Orme,” 104, 108 Pola X 62 Davenant, William 8 Carlyle, Thomas 35 Works 8 Carne, John De Kay, Charles 102 “Letters from the East,” 2 Delano, Amasa Carter, Angela 60 Narrative of Voyages and Travels 74 Cassady, Neal 121 Deleuze, Gilles 122 Cato 13 Dellenbaugh, Frederick Cellini, Benvenuto 90 Canyon Voyage 52 Chapman, George 114 Delon, Alain 48, 59 Chase, Richard 93, 121 Democritus 46 “Chattanooga,” 88 Deneuve, Catherine 62 Chaucer, Geoffrey Dent, J. M. 116 “Prioress’s Tale, The,” 98 De Peyster, Watts 88 Child, Lydia Maria De Quincey, Thomas “Hindoo Anchorite, The,” 5–6 Confessions of an Opium Eater 8 Chopin, Kate “Revolt of the Tartars,” 2 Awakening, The 38 Disraeli, Isaac 104 Chorley, Henry Fothergill 54, 113–114 Literary Character, The 39, 103 Cioran, E. M. “Donelson,” 91 Temptation to Exist, The 13 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Clarel 10, 13, 25, 26, 92–99, 100, 114, Brothers Karamazov, The 118 117, 118, 123 Douglass, Frederick 29 “Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!” 76 Dreiser, Theodore 115 Cohen, Hennig 91 Sister Carrie 66 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 109 Duyckinck, Evert 5, 6, 9, 33, 60, 68–72 Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The 79 Colum, Padraic 97 Eisenstein, Sergei 36 Confidence-Man, The 9–10, 17, Battleship Potemkin 22 26, 27, 81, 83–85, 110, 114, Ivan the Terrible 60 120–122 Eliot, T. S. Conrad, Joseph Waste Land, The 93 Nostromo 78 Ellis, William Cooper, James Fenimore 76 Polynesian Researches 38–39 Red Rover 72 Emerson, Ralph Waldo 68 Sea Lions 72 “Encantadas, The,” 18, 99 Craighead, Robert 47 Evelev, John 40 Cramer, William 102 Crane, Hart 56 “Fiddler, The,” 76 Crane, Stephen 15 Flaubert, Gustave 70 Maggie 15 Fletcher, John Monster, The 38 Fifty Comedies and Tragedies 8 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85480-1 - The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville Kevin J. Hayes Index More information Index 137 Fly, Eli James Murdock 71 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 5, 8, 32, 61, 69, Forster, E. M. 116 72–74, 77, 101, 106 “Fragments from a Writing Desk,” 2 House of Seven Gables, The 72 Franklin, Benjamin 21, 52, 74, Mosses from an Old Manse 72 76–77 “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” 66 Freeman, John 26, 61, 99 “Hawthorne and His Mosses,” 20, 73 Herman Melville 119 Hazlitt, William Freud, Sigmund 19, 30 Table Talk 21 Frost, Robert 117 Henry, Patrick 13 Fuller, Margaret 5 Heraud, J. A. 35 Fuller, Roy 121 Hervey,T.K.6 Australia 6 Gama, Vasco da 31 Hobbes, Thomas 36 Ganesvoort, Peter 1, 14 Holden, William 117 Garner, Stanton 91 Holden’s Dollar Magazine 71 Garnett, Edward 118 Homer 46, 114 Genet, Jean 122 Iliad 31 George III, king of Great Britain 74 Odyssey 93 Ghedini, Giorgio Federico “House of the tragic poet,” 99, 100, 101 Concerto dell’ albatro 53 Howells, William Dean 88 Giono, Jean 119 Hazard of New Fortunes, A 104 Pour saluer Melville 119 “Hugh of Lincoln,” 98 Godard, Jean-Luc 122 Hughs, Mary Grand escroc, Le 122 May Morning 6 Godwin, Parke 5 Hugo, Victor 115 Godwin, William Humane Review 115 Caleb Williams 8 Humphreys, A. R. 78, 109 Goldsmith, Oliver Herman Melville 122 History of the Earth 29 Huston, John 75 Goncharov, Ivan Oblomov 86 “I and My Chimney,” 103 Grand escroc, Le, 771; see also The Ionesco, Eugene 122 Confidence-Man Irving, Washington 4, 40 Grant, Ulysses S. 88, 89 “Rip Van Winkle,” 38 Greene, Richard Tobias 3, 6, 27 Isle of the Cross, The 9 Greenwood, Grace 32 Israel Potter 8, 9, 14, 21, 26, 74–75, Gregg, Josiah 76–77, 113–114 Commerce of the Prairies 55 James, C. L. R. 21, 86 Hafiz 46, 97 James, Henry 9, 19, 107 Hall, A. Oakey 40, 59 Jefferson, Thomas 52 Hall, Basil Jesus, of Nazareth 62 “Schloss Hainfield,” 2 “Jimmy Rose,” 16 “Happy Failure, The,” 76 “John Marr,” 103–104, 105 Harper’s Family Classical Library 14 John Marr and Other Sailors 11, 103, Harris, Townsend 102 105 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85480-1 - The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville Kevin J. Hayes Index More information 138 Index Johnson, Samuel 7, 8, 80 Macpherson, James, 486; see also Johnstone, Christian 5 Ossian Jones, John Paul 21, 74, 77 “Carthon,” 89 Jones, Samuel Arthur 114 Fingal 88–89 Jones, William 57 Mann, Thomas Jonson, Ben 8 Magic Mountain, The 95 Joyce, James 42 Mardi 4, 6–7, 8, 19, 26, 39–46, 68, 73, Julian the Apostate 46 112–113, 123 “Marquis de Grandvin, The,” 104–105 Kafka, Franz 121 Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr. 115, 118 Kames, Henry Home 39 Maturin, Charles Robert 54 Kant, Immanuel 109 Mayoux, Jean-Jacques 9, 70 Keats, John 114 Melville 122 Kennedy, John Pendleton Melvill, Allan 1 Swallow Barn 77 Melvill, Thomas 14 Kerouac, Jack 120, 121 Melville, Elizabeth Shaw 6, 99 Melville, Ganesvoort 1, 2, 4–5 Lansing, Abraham 102 Melville, Helen Maria 6 Lathers, Richard 102 Melville, Malcolm 7 Laughlin, James 121 Melville, Maria Ganesvoort 1, 69 Lavater, Johann Caspar 17 Meredith, George 114, 121 Essays on Physiognomy 17 Milford, Humphrey 116 Lawrence, T. E. 118, 120 Mills, Abraham 43 Lear, Edward 39 Milton, John 31, 32, 46, 104 Leavis, Q. D. 83 Paradise Lost 27, 31, 32, 93, 97, 100 Lee, Robert E. 89, 91 “Mr. Parkman’s Tour,” 105, 107 “Lee in the Capitol,” 91–92 Moby-Dick, 77, 85, 87, 97, 110, 196, Lefebvre, Henri 15 322, 363, 365, 367, 375, 377, 399, Lehmann, John 121 409, 411, 415, 418, 419, 433, 449, Lemay,J.A.Leo84 464, 535, 539, 547, 563, 597, 622, Letters 1–2, 26, 67–74 638, 654, 659, 666, 689, 702, 714, Lewis, Monk 54 718, 721, 726, 742, 777; see also Life and Remarkable Adventures of The Whale Israel R. Potter 74 Montaigne, Michel de 46 “Lightning-Rod Man, The,” 26, Morning Express (Buffalo) 27 81–83, 119 Morris, William 114 Literary World 70–71, 72, 73 Mosby, John 89 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Moses 94 “Haunted Houses,” 94 Mumford, Lewis 25, 121 Losey, Joseph 48 Herman Melville 120 Monsieur Klein 48, 58, 59 Murray, John 4–5, 6, 33, 112–113 “Lyon,” 88 Murry, John Middleton 109, 117 MacMechan, Archibald 56, 115, 119 “Naples in the Time of Bomba,” 99 “Best Sea Story Ever Written, The,” Narrative of a Four Months’ Residence, 115 30; see also Typee © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85480-1 - The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville Kevin J. Hayes Index More information Index 139 Nelson, Horatio 101 Pound, Ezra New Era 116 Cantos 26, 97 New York Times 102 Preston, John Nietzsche, Friedrich Every Man His Own Teacher 1 Thus Spake Zarathustra 118 Prior, Matthew 46 “Norfolk Isle and the Chola Widow,” Proclus 46 18 Putnam, George P. 4 Putnam’s Magazine 74, 80 Oates, Titus 104 Pyrrho 46 O’Brien, Edward 75 Olson, Charles 20, 35 Queen’s Quarterly 115 Call Me Ishmael 122 Omoo 3, 6, 7, 15, 22, 25–26, 33–39, Rabelais, Franc¸ois 41 112, 114, 116, 117 Redburn 7, 14, 15, 22, 26, 27, 40–46, Ossian 10, 46, 82, 88–89, 92, 104 62, 63, 73, 113 Reverdy, Pierre 98 Pancoast, Seth Rhys, Ernest 116 Ladies Medical Guide 6 Rimbaud, Arthur “Paradise of Bachelors and the Season in Hell 9, 10 Tartarus of Maids, The,” 22–23 “River, The,” 3 Park, Mungo 46 Robbe-Grillet, Alain 122 Parker, Jonathan Rohmer, Eric 18 Bartleby 86 Romances of Herman Melville Parkman, Francis 120 California and Oregon Trail 72, Rosset, Barney 122 105 Russell, W.
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