Now part of the American Literature Collection! See below for details.

Leviathan

The Official Journal of The Melville Society

Edited by:
John Bryant (Editor)
Wyn Kelley (Associate Editor)

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Leviathan contains articles, notes, reviews, and creative writing on the life, works, and influence of novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891).  Each issue also includes Melville Society reports, news of cultural events, and abstracts of program papers in its Extracts department.  First appearing in 1999, Leviathan was created by John Bryant and is open to all scholarly, historicist, critical, and pedagogical approaches.

 

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Leviathan is now part of the highly anticipated American Literature Collection, an online collection of exceptional journals devoted to the study of American authors. Other journals in the collection include The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review , The Mark Twain Annual, Poe Studies, and Steinbeck Review. For more information about the American Literature Collection, click here or visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/alc.

New books in Melville Studies!

Melville Unfolding: Sexuality, Politics, and the Versions of Typee
John Bryant, Editor of Leviathan

Ungraspable Phantom
Essays on Moby-Dick
Edited by John Bryant, Editor of Leviathan

A Companion to Herman Melville - New from Blackwell!
Edited by Wyn Kelley, Associate Editor of Leviathan
Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

Monumental Melville
The Formation of a Literary Career
Edgar A. Dryden, Advisory Board member of Leviathan

Upcoming Events

See The Melville Society webpage for details on the following:

• The Melville Society sponsors sessions at the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention and the American Literature Association conference.
• International Conferences are held every two years.
• The Melville Society's Cultural Project sponsors an annual Moby-Dick reading marathon, a Melville Birthday Lecture, and the Melville Lyceum lecture series, and exhibits, all held at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, in New Bedford, MA.
• The Melville Society Archive, at the Kendall Institute of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, maintains a growing collection of primary and secondary resources related to Melville studies. Grants and accommodations for researchers are available.

Related Links

The New Bedford Whaling Museum is the largest museum in America devoted to the history of the American whaling industry and its greatest port. Through exhibits, publications, and programs, the Museum brings to life the whaling era and the history of the local area. It houses the most extensive collection of art, artifacts, and manuscripts pertaining to American whaling in the age of sail - late eighteenth century to the early twentieth, when sailing ships dominated merchant trade and whaling.

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TopHighlights

Essays

• Composing Moby-Dick: What Might Have Happened
  E. L. Doctorow
• Fish, Sex and Cannibalism: Appetites for Conversion in Melville's Typee. (Critical Essay)
  Henry Hughes
• Of Sharks and Pilot-Fish: Melville's Prophetic Art and the Dream of (French) America: a Reprise and Reappraisal. (Critical Essay)
  Jean-Francois Leroux
• Nervous Wrecks and Ginger-Nuts: Bartleby at a Standstill. (Critical Essay)
  Ralph James Savarese
• The Historical and Literary Sources of Redburn's "Mysterious Night in London." (Critical Essay)
  Jonathan A. Cook

Special Issues

• Melville and Disability
  Eds. David T. Mitchell and Samuel Otter
• Melville and Milton
  Ed. Robin Grey

Notes

• Douglass, Melville, Quincy, Shaw: Epistolary Convergences. (Critical Essay)
  Robert K. Wallace
• Chaucerian Humor in Moby-Dick: Queequeg's "Ramadan." (Notes) (Critical Essay)
  James Duban

Reviews

• Edgar Dryden's Monumental Melville
  John Wenke

Interviews and Poems

• Eye to Eye: Painting White Whale: Moby Dick. (Artists' Forum).
  Aileen Callahan
• "Stand By Me, Hold Me, Bind Me, O Ye Blessed Influences." (Six Poems from Bulkington)
  Louis Phillips

Extracts

• Presidential Addresses
• MLA Abstracts
• Melville Society & Cultural Project News