Hershel Parker
H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus, University of Delaware
EDUCATION:
1959 B.A. Lamar State College of Technology
1960 M.A. Northwestern University
1963 Ph.D. Northwestern University
AWARDS:
1959 60 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
1960 61 Northwestern University Fellowship
1962 63 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship
1965 University of Illinois Faculty Summer Fellowship (declined)
1970 USC Bing Summer Research Fellowship
1974-75 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship USC
1975 Creative Scholarship and Research Award The USC Associates Awards, the highest honors the university faculty bestows upon its members for distinguished intellectual and artistic achievements and for outstanding teaching, both in and out of the classroom.
1981 1982 Research Fellowship from the University of Delaware Center for Advanced Study (year off to write Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons)
1997 Finalist (one of two) for the Pulitzer Prize in biography.
1997 Winner of the highest award in "Literature and Language" category in the Association of American Publishers' Professional / Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Awards in the 1996 Competition.
2003 Winner of the highest award in "Biography and Autobiography" (a new and more appropriate category) in the Association of American Publishers' Professional / Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Awards in the 2002 Competition.
10 December 2008 at opening ceremony of the CUNY Leon Levy Center for Biography on "Crafting an Eloquent Beginning" John T. Matteson read aloud the first paragraph of Herman Melville: A Biography, 1819-1851, saying “The opening paragraph should reflect the character of the subject, the way the music of a great aria fits the mood of the words being sung.”
ACADEMIC RANKS:
1961 1962 Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University
1963 1965 Assistant Professor, University of Illinois
1965 1968 Assistant Professor, Northwestern University (Visiting Professor, Northwestern University, Summer 1973)
1968 1970 Associate Professor, University of Southern California
1970 1979 Professor, USC
1977 1979 Bruce R. McElderry Research Scholar, USC
1979 1998 H. Fletcher Brown Professor, University of Delaware
1998- H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus, University of Delaware
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION:
Director of Graduate Studies, USC 1975 1978
UNIVERSITY POSTS:
Member of the committee to judge Delaware dissertations for the Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize in the Humanities, 1981
Member of the committee to evaluate applications for grants from the University of Delaware Center for Advanced Study, 1983
Member of the committee to evaluate the dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, 1984 1985
Member of the board of the University Press of Delaware, 1990-1991
PROFESSIONAL POSTS:
Associate General Editor of The Writings of Herman Melville, 1965 Present (fourteen volumes published by 2009, the fifteenth due out late in 2013)
General Editor, The Writings of Herman Melville (for the last two volumes)
Examiner for the Center for Editions of American Authors (with work in Austin, Berkeley, Chicago, Columbia, Columbus, Iowa City, Los Angeles, New York, San Marino, and Washington, 1969 1976)
Member of the CEAA Advisory Committee, 1971 1974
Regional Representative for the Melville Society and Program Chairman for the 1971 meeting (Chicago)
Member of the Executive Committee of the MLA Bibliographical Evidence Committee, 1971 1973
Contributor of the Melville chapter to nine successive volumes of the MLA sponsored annual, American Literary Scholarship, 1972 1980
Field Editor in Nineteenth Century American Literature for G. K. Hall, 1974 1980
Member of the Editorial Board of Nineteenth Century Fiction,1976 1986 and under the new title Nineteenth Century Literature, 1986 1990 (Resigned to concentrate on the Melville biography and The New Melville Log.) (June 2007: identified as having contributed to NCF and NCL during five decades.)
Member of the MLA Executive Committee for American Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1976 1980
Examiner for the Center for Scholarly Editions, 1977 1987
Member of the Editorial Board of Review, 1977 1990
Chairman of the Norman Foerster Prize Committee to select theyear's best article in American Literature, 1977
Member of the Editorial Board of Literary Research Newsletter, 1978 1985
Program Chairman, American Literature of the Nineteenth Century, MLA, 1979 (San Francisco)
Program Chairman, Melville Society Meeting at MLA, 1979 (San Francisco)
Member of the Editorial Board of Studies in American Fiction, 1979 1990 (I resigned from all editorial boards early in 1990.)
Member of the Editorial Board of American Literature, 1980 1984
Program Chairman of the Melville Society Meeting at New Bedford, June 1980
Secretary of the SAMLA Textual and Bibliographical Studies section, 1981 (Chairman 1982)
Member of the NEH Division of Research Programs Panel for Editions of American Materials, Washington, D.C., March 1981
Member of the Editorial Board of South Atlantic Review, 1981 1984
Program Chairman of the SAMLA Textual and Bibliographical Studies section in Atlanta, November 1982
Member of the Discipline Screening Committee of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Foundation), 1983 1986. (Stayed on by request for both the Summer and Fall 1986 meetings in Washington, D. C.)
Member of the MLA Executive Committee, Division on Methods of Literary Research, 1984 1988
Program Chairman of the MLA Division on Methods of Literary Research for the 1987 San Francisco MLA, and organizer of three sessions: "Problems with Evidence in Telling or Retelling Episodes in American Literary History (A Tribute to William Charvat)," chaired by Leo Lemay (in my absence for my father's funeral); "Teaching the Course in Methods of Literary Research: Redefined Goals, New Technologies," chaired by David J. Nordloh; "Enhancing the Archive You Work In," chaired by Robert H. Hirst.
Member of the MLA Hubbell Medal Committee (1989-1993)
President of the Melville Society, 1991
Member of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend selection panel, November 1991
Member of the Board of the "Friends of Herman Melville's Arrowhead," 1991-1998 (supporting Arrowhead, by annual contributions, by supplying new documentation about the house to use in promotion flyers, by transporting artifacts, by supplying 25 copies of the centennial issue on Melville in American History Illustrated, and in miscellaneous ways).
Member of the National Endowment for the Humanities Publications Subvention panel, 29 May 1992
Author of the eulogy of Merton M. Sealts, Jr., and presenter of the Hubbell Medal to him at the American Literature Section luncheon, at the New York City MLA, December 28, 1992.
Chairman of the Hubbell Medal Committee, 1993.
MISCELLANEOUS PROFESSIONAL ROLES:
Participant in various Melville Society meetings and in meetings of the CEAA editors and Advisory Committee members in Chicago, New York, Denver, Washington, Berkeley, Columbia, San Francisco, and other cities
Reader of articles submitted to journals (other than the journals for which I was a member of the editorial boards) and frequent reader of manuscripts submitted to commercial and university presses
Evaluator of scholarly achievements for many English departments in the United States and Canada
Evaluator of many scholarly projects for NEH, the Guggenheim Foundation, and other institutions
Bit player in Voyager production of PBS film on Herman Melville (interview filmed in New Bedford 19 December 1981, broadcast Spring 1985)
Nominator for the Ritz Paris Hemingway Award, 1985 1986
Participant with Neville Shack of the BBC in a radio program commemorating the centenary of Herman Melville's death (interviewed by telephone 21 August 1991 at WHYY studios in Philadelphia)
Participant with Nancy Beardsley of the Voice of America in a radio program commemorating the centenary of Herman Melville's death (interviewed by telephone 6 September 1991 at WILM studios in Wilmington)
Participant in September 1991 at commemorations of the centennial of Melville's death: in Los Angeles on 10 September I consulted with Edwin Shneidman on his brochure for the gift of his Melville collection to UCLA on 28 September, since I had to refuse an invitation to speak on that occasion; as President of the Melville Society I attended the lectures by Hayford and Tanselle at the New York Public Library on 24 September; on 28 September 1991 I attended a commemoration of Melville's death at the home of one of his great-grandsons in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Interview with Leonard Lopate for WNYC Radio on 28 November 1995 on the Kraken Edition of Pierre; it was broadcast before 11 January 1996.
Fifteen-minute interview by Hermione Lee for BBC3--broadcast 27 November 1996
Hour-long interview on the Marc Steiner Show on WJHU Radio, Baltimore, 6 February 1997
January 2001 Interview with with Radio Free Europe
PAPERS DELIVERED:
"The Metaphysics of Indian hating," read to the Melville Society at the Chicago meeting during MLA, December 1960
"Melville's Unknown Revisions of Moby Dick," read to the Melville Society at the Chicago meeting during MLA, December 1965
"Conjectural Emendations in Melville," read to a meeting of CEAA editors at Chicago, October 1967
"'HERMAN MELVILLE CRAZY': New Light on the Reception of Pierre," read to the Melville Society at the Chicago meeting during MLA, December 1971
"Moby Dick: Practical Editions," read at the Proof Forum during MLA at New York City, December 1972
"Editing Melville: Theories, Techniques, and Ethics," read to the Melville Society at Chicago during MLA, December 1973
"Bowery Tale or Bowersy Tale," presented to an Occidental College Faculty Discussion Group session, January 1975
"Interpretive Implications of Textual Evidence," read to the English Conference of the University of California at Riverside, February 1975
"The Ambiguous Portrait of Vine in Melville's Clarel," read to the Melville Society Centennial Celebration of the publication of Clarel, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, May 1976
"Reviewers of CEAA Editions," delivered at an MLA Forum on "Reviews and Reviewing," New York City, December 1976
"Aesthetic Implications of Authorial Excisions," read to the Toronto Conference on Editorial Problems, November 1977
"The Composition and Meaning of Pudd'nhead Wilson," read to the English Department of the University of California at Berkeley, November 1977
"Aesthetic Implications of Textual Evidence in Fiction," read to the English Department of the University of California at Berkeley, November 1977
Participant at the MLA Forum on "The Red Badge of Courage: What Stephen Crane wrote vs. What the Critics Have Read," Chicago, December 1977
Pudd'nhead Wilson: Composition and Meaning," a longer version of the paper already listed, delivered to the English Department of the University of Tennessee, January 1978
Respondent at the Conference on Literary and Historical Editing at Lawrence, Kansas, September 1978
"Norman Mailer's Revision of An American Dream and the Aesthetic Problem of 'Built in' Intentionality," read at the Bibliographical and Textual Studies section on Authorial Intentionality at the South Atlantic MLA in Atlanta, November 1979
"Melville and the Berkshires: Emotion Laden Terrain, 'Reckless Sky Assaulting Mood,' and Encroaching Wordsworthianism," read at the Northeastern University Conference on "American Literature: The New England Heritage," May 1980
"Melville in the 1980's," read at the University of Wyoming Conference on "Melville and the Critics" at Laramie, June 1980
"The Reviewing of the CEAA and CSE Editions," read at the section of American Blbliographical and Textual Studies at the Houston MLA, December 1980
"Mailer's Revisions of An American Dream and the Aesthetic Problem of 'Built in' Intentionality" (a version of the 1979 SAMLA talk), read at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, April 1981
"Interpretation in Editing: The Red Badge of Courage as a Test Case," read at the Association for Documentary Editing conference at Madison, Wisconsin, October 1981
"Style and Sex in G. W. Harris's Sheriff Doltin Sequence," read at the American Literature Section at the Louisville South Atlantic MLA, November 1981
"Some Modern Literary Theories and Textual Criticism," delivered to the University of Delaware English Department Criticism Group, December 1981
"The Goddess of Invention Outcast of the MLA," read at the Textual Scholarship and Literary Theory session at the New York City MLA, December 1981
"The Ambiguous Portrait of Vine in Melville's Clarel," read at the Nineteenth Century American Literature section at the Northeast MLA in New York City, April 1982 (a version of the May 1976 paper)
"Cheap Thrills: Lost Authority and Adventitious Experiences," read at the Textual and Bibliographical Studies session at the South Central MLA in San Antonio, October 1982
"'The Text Itself'—Whatever That Is," read at the Textual Meaning session of the Society for Textual Scholarship meeting in New York City, April 1983
"The Politics of Restoring The Red Badge of Courage: The Private History of a Campaign that Succeeded?" read to the Literary Fellowship meeting in Philadelphia, October 1983
"The Irrationality of Greg's Rationale," read at the South Central MLA Meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, October 1983
"The 'Novelistic Fallacy' in American Fiction," read at the Bibliography and Textual Studies session at the South Atlantic MLA meeting in Atlanta, October 1983
"Losing Control," read at the Division of Methods of Literary Research at the New York City MLA, December 1983
"The Excessive Rationality of Greg's Rationale," read at the Bibliography and Textual Studies Discussion group at the New York City MLA, December 1983 (a variant of the October 1983 talk in Fort Worth)
"Literary Authority: A Position Paper," read at the special session on "Authority and the Author," NEMLA, Philadelphia, March 1984
"The Germ Theory of The Scarlet Letter," read at the American Literature section at SAMLA in Atlanta, November 1984
"The Politics of Expanding the Canon," read in a special session on "Gender / Politics / History: The Shaping of a Canon," at the Washington, D. C., MLA, December 1984
"The Portrait of a Lady: Versions vs. Discrete Works," read at the Methods of Literary Research session at the Washington MLA, December 1984
"Multiple vs. Single Copy Texts in Henry James," read at the Society for Textual Scholarship, New York City, April 1985
"Literary Authority in American Fiction," Keynote Address at the Association of Departments of English conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, June 1985
"Herman Melville's 'Suicide Notes,'" read at the American Psychological Association meeting in Los Angeles, August 1985
"A Little Brief Authority," read at the SAMLA meeting in Atlanta, November 1985
"Getting Used to The Red Badge of Courage as Crane Wrote It," read at the Chicago MLA December 1985
"You Can't Say That about Pierre," read at the Philological Association of the Carolinas at the Charleston meeting, March 1986
"The Endurance of Error: Cloister Life and 'Benito Cereno,'" read at the NEMLA meeting at Rutgers, April 1986
"Traveling Heavy with Faulkner Texts: The Burdens of Intertextuality," read at the session on "Manuscript, Typescript, Text: The Composition of Faulkner's Novels," New York City MLA December 1986
Keynote speech and participation in other programs at the Symposium of the Society for Critical Exchange 27 29 March 1987 in Oxford, Ohio (a conference devoted to Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons)
Participant with David Greetham and Donald Reiman at Speed Hill's CUNY class symposium on Textual Editing and Textual Theory, May 1988
"How Thomas Powell and Herman Melville Hurt Washington Irving in 1849-1850: Hard Year for the Old Man," given at the meeting of the NEMLA at Providence, R.I., March 1988
"On MS and Textual Study of Hemingway," given at the Third International Conference of the Hemingway Conference Schruns, Austria, June 1988
Participant in a Panel on "An Alpine Idyl," Schruns, Austria, June 1988
With Harrison Hayford I made a three-week tour of Japanese colleges and universities in October 1989; I gave the following talks:
At Meiji University in Tokyo: "New Discoveries in Melville Biography"
At the American Center in Sopporo, "New Discoveries in Melville Biography" (somewhat different from the talk at Meiji)
At Doshisha University in Kyoto: "The Continuity Between the New Criticism and the New Historicism"
At Okayama University, before the American Studies Association of Japan: "The Continuity Between the New Criticism and the New Historicism" (a longer version of the talk at Kyoto)
At Tokyo University: "The American Infrastructure--National and Academic"
At Shukutoku Junior College: "My Candid Impressions of Japan" (a topic requested by the hosts)
"Authorial Intention and the New Historicism," given at the annual meeting of the Association for Documentary Editing in Washington, D. C., November 1989
"Writing a Life in a Decade of Theory," given in Albuquerque at a meeting of the English Department of the University of New Mexico, November 1990
"The Puissance and Pusillanimity of the Anthology Editor," delivered at the second American Literature Section session at the Chicago MLA, December 1990
"Historical Research vs. the New Historicism," given at the Melville panel organized by the Association for Documentary Editing at the Chicago MLA, December 1990
"Melville's 'First' Whaling Plans (1839) and his Welcome Home (1844)," delivered at the Millicent Library ceremony at Fairhaven on 3 January 1991, the 150th anniversary of the sailing of the Acushnet; I spoke as President of the Melville Society, representing the Society
"Writing a Life in an Age of Theory," public lecture at the University of Delaware, 10 April 1991 (almost altogether different from the talk of the similar name in November 1990)
"Deconstructing The Art of the Novel and Recovering James's Prefaces," given at the Society for Textual Scholarship, 6th International Conference in New York, 13 April 1991.
"Panel on Melville Biography"--participation in a panel at the Melville Society Centenary Meeting in Pittsfield, May 1991, sharing some new stories from my biography.
"Melville as Sex Symbol," given at a panel on Melville at the 3 April 1992 NEMLA meeting in Buffalo, New York.
"Extraordinary Twins: The New Critics and the New Historicists Read Pudd'nhead Wilson," given at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Clemson, S. C., April 25, 1992.
"The Morewoods' Fancy-Dress Pic-nics at Melville Lake," given on August 8, 1992, before the Berkshire County Historical Society, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, at a fund-raiser for Melville's house, Arrowhead; the other speaker was the artist and Melville-lover, Maurice Sendak.
"Melville as Sex Symbol," repeated in a longer version at Nantucket, Massachusetts, in the Great Hall of the Athenaeum, October 13, 1992.
"'Poems by Herman Melville' (1860) and the Purpose of Melville's Reading on his Voyage around the Horn on the Meteor" delivered at "The American Renaissance and Historical Scholarship," an MLA session organized by David Reynolds for December 1992, NYC. (David S. Reynolds, Jerome Loving, Hershel Parker; Philip Gura respondant.)
"The Last Meeting of Melville and Hawthorne in the Berkshires," the Melville meeting at NEMLA in Philadelphia, March 27, 1993.
"New Episodes in Melville Biography," delivered at Penn State University, October 11, 1993, at the invitation of the Department of English, the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, the Dean of the College of the Liberal Arts, the Center for the History of the Book, and Penn State Press, in honor of the publication of the late Philip Young's The Private Melville.
"Tender is the Night and the Authority of the Author," delivered at the F. Scott Fitzgerald section at the Toronto MLA December 1993.
Talk on Herman Melville biography at Salisbury State University on 14 April 1994.
Talk on the research for my Melville biography, before the University of Delaware Library Assembly of Professional Staff on "The Scholar and the Library: Recent Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences," 22 April 1994.
Joint lecture with Maurice Sendak on Melville's Pierre at the Philadelphia Academy of Vocal Arts, sponsored by the Rosenbach Museum, 17 September 1995.
"War in the Original The Red Badge of Courage," delivered at the Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the publication of The Red Badge of Courage at the USAF Academy, Colorado Springs, 1 December 1995.
Lecture on Herman Melville in the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center "Biographers and Brunch" (lectures by literary biographers), 10 March 1996 in the Weill Art Gallery.
Lecture on "Writing Herman Melville: 1819-1851, 26 October 1996, at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto.
1996-1997: Short talks at book signings in Washington, D. C., Boston, Mystic Seaport, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore.
Fifteen-minute interview by Hermione Lee for BBC3--broadcast 27 November 1996
Hour-long interview on the Marc Steiner Show on WJHU Radio, Baltimore, 6 February 1997
Participation with Alfred Kazin and Paul Metcalf in a Symposium on Melville at the Barnes and Noble Union Square Bookstore, 25 February 1997.
Lecture on "Melville Scholarship: Searching for the Story," Salisbury State University, 5 March 1997.
Lecture, "Melville as Berkshire Author," at the Berkshire County Historical Society (Broadhall), 19 April 1997.
Lecture before the Library Associates of the University of Delaware, "Finding a Life in the Archives," 10 June 1997, 4:30 p.m.
Lecture at the New Bedford Whaling Museum 26 June 1997, "Melville and Moby-Dick: "Dollars Damn Me."
Lecture at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia 27 September 1997, "The Lost Poems (1860) and Melville's First Urge to Write an Epic Poem."
"Melville's Quest for an Aesthetic Credo in 1862," delivered at the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics meeting in San Francisco, 7 November 1997.
"Why Poetry?," delivered at the American Literature Association meeting in Cancun, 13 December 1997.
"Homospatial Imagery and Melville's Psychological Growth," delivered at an English Department meeting at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, 12 February 1998.
“The Sailors’ Snug Harbor as Paradise for the Melvilles,” delivered at the Sailors’ Snug Harbor in Staten Island, 16 July 1998.
31 October 2001 participation in Michael Krasny's KQED forum on the Sesquicentennial of Moby-Dick, by telephone in Morro Bay 10-11 a.m.
"Damned by Dollars," delivered at the Stanford English Department, Stanford, 1 November 2001.
"Moby-Dick and the Pacific Rim: Manifest Destiny and Literary Greatness," delivered 3 November 2001 on the Balclutha at a session of the Sesquicentennial of Moby-Dick celebration sponsored by the San Francisco Maritime National Park Association in collaboration with Stanford University and the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
Another Stanford talk 2002
"Damned by Dollars: Moby Dick and The Price of Genius," delivered at Claremont-McKenna, 24 March 2003.
"Moby-Dick as a Book of the Pacific Rim," delivered at Claremont-McKenna 25 March 2003.
"The Biographer Surprised: Discovering New Episodes in Melville's Life," delivered at the University of Texas, Permian Basin, Odessa, 28 March 2007
Participation in David Greetham's class on "Billy Budd" at CUNY, 25 April 2007.
"Melville and the Berkshires," delivered at the Melville Conference at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 28 April 2007
"The Biographer Surprised: Discovering New Episodes in Melville's Life," delivered at the Morro Bay Public Library, 16 May 2007.
"Pre-Revolutionary Patriots and Revolutionary Soldiers," delivered at the 15 November 2008 meeting of the San Luis Obispo chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.
"The Biographer Surprised: Discovering New Episodes in Melville's Life," delivered before the History Seminar at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo 20 November 2008.
“50 Years with The Confidence-Man,” Art Center College of Design, 4 October 2010.
A 3-hour seminar on Moby-Dick on 8 March 2011 at Otis Institute in Los Angeles at the invitation of Dennis Phillips and Paul Vangelisti.
PUBLICATIONS:
Directory of Melville Dissertations, eds. Tyrus Hillway and Hershel Parker (Evanston: The Melville Society, 1962), 63 pages.
"The Metaphysics of Indian hating," Nineteenth Century Fiction, 18 (September 1963), pp. 165 173. Reprinted in the Norton Critical Edition of The Confidence Man (New York: W. W. Norton, 1971), pp. 323 331. Reprinted in Modern Critical Views: Herman Melville, ed. Harold Bloom (New York and Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1986). Reprinted in the Norton Critical Edition of The Confidence Man (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006), pp. 493-501.
"Melville's Salesman Story," Studies in Short Fiction, 1 (Winter 1964), pp. 154 158.
"New Cross Lights on Melville in the 1870's," Emerson Society Quarterly, Number 39 (Second Quarter 1965), pp. 24 25.
"Gansevoort Melville's Role in the Campaign of 1844," The New York Historical Society Quarterly, 49 (April 1965), pp. 143 73.
"An Error in the Text of James' The American," American Literature, 37 (November 1965), pp. 316 18.
"Gansevoort Melville's 1846 London Journal," Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 69 (December 1965), pp. 632 654; 70 (January 1966), pp. 36 49; and 70 (February 1966), pp. 113 31.
Gansevoort Melville's 1846 London Journal and Letters from England, 1845 (New York: The New York Public Library, 1966), 74 pp. (An expanded version of the previous item.)
Review of Paul Brodtkorb, Jr., Ishmael's White World: A Phenomenological Reading of MOBY DICK, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 65 (July 1966), pp. 627 629.
The Recognition of Herman Melville (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, l967), pp. xviii and 364; reissued in paperback, 1970.
The Norton Critical Edition of MOBY DICK, eds. Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker (New York: W. W. Norton, 1967), pp. xx and 728.
Typee, in The Writings of Herman Melville, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1968), pp. xiv and 374.
"Species of 'Soiled Fish,'" Center for Editions of American Authors Newsletter, 1 (March 1968), pp. 11 12.
Omoo, in The Writings of Herman Melville, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1968), pp. xv and 380.
Redburn, The Writings of Herman Melville, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1969), pp. xi and 380. (Parker is "the editor who coordinated the preparation of this volume.")
"Historical Note," in Redburn, pp. 315 352.
"Three Melville Reviews in the London Weekly Chronicle," American Literature, 41 (January 1970), pp. 584 589.
MOBY DICK as Doubloon: Essays and Extracts (1851 1970), eds. Hershel Parker and Harrison Hayford (New York : W. W. Norton, 1970), pp. xxi and 388.
Mardi, The Writings of Herman Melville, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1970), pp. xvii and 710. (Parker is "the editor who coordinated the preparation of this volume.")
"A Reexamination of Melville's Reviewers," American Literature, 42 (May 1970), pp. 226 232.
"Melville's Satire of Emerson and Thoreau: An Evaluation of the Evidence," American Transcendental Quarterly, No. 7, Part 2 (Summer 1970), pp. 61 67. Publisher's inadvertent omissions are given in "Melville's Satire of Emerson and Thoreau: Corrections," a page tipped into the hardbound copies of the issue, Studies in the Minor and Later Works of Melville, ed. Raymona E. Hull (Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1970), and in ATQ, No. 9, Part 2 (Winter 1971), p. 70.
White Jacket, The Writings of Herman Melville, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1970), pp. xiv and 499. (Parker is "the editor who coordinated the preparation of this volume.")
Review of Daniel B. Shea, Jr., Spiritual Autobiography in Early America, Eighteenth Century Studies, 3 (Summer 1970), pp. 573 574.
Review of John W. Reps, Town Planning in Frontier America, Eighteenth Century Studies, 4 (Autumn 1970), pp. 113 114.
The Norton Critical Edition of THE CONFIDENCE MAN (New York: W. W. Norton, 1971), pp. xvii and 376.
"Private Allegory and Public Allegory in Melville," Samuel Willis (pseud.) in The Confidence Man (New York: W. W. Norton, 1971), pp. 285 286.
"'The Story of China Aster': A Tentative Explication," in The Confidence Man (New York: W. W. Norton, 1971), pp. 353 356.
"In Defense of 'Copy Text Editing,'" Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 75 (October 1971), pp. 337 344.
"Melville and the Concept of 'Author's Final Intentions,'" Proof: The Yearbook of American Bibliographical and Textual Studies, 1 (l97l), pp. 156 168.
Pierre, The Writings of Herman Melville, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1971), pp. x and 435. (Parker is "the editor who coordinated the preparation of this volume.")
"Historical Note" in Pierre, by Leon Howard (pp. 365 379) and Hershel Parker (pp. 379 41O).
Shorter Works of Hawthorne and Melville (Columbus: Charles E. Merrill Co., 1972), pp. 424.
"Five Reviews not in MOBY DICK as Doubloon," English Language Notes, 9 (March 1972), pp. 182 185.
"Trafficking in Melville," Modern Language Quarterly, 33 (March 1972), pp. 54 66.
"'Benito Cereno' and Cloister Life: A Rescrutiny of a 'Source,'" Studies in Short Fiction, 9 (Summer 1972), pp. 221 232.
"Further Notices of Pierre," Extracts: An Occasional Newsletter of the Melville Society, No. 12 (October 1972), pp. 4 5.
Statement of Editorial Principles and Procedures: A Working Manual for Editing Nineteenth Century American Texts, Revised Edition (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1972), 25 pp. I contributed in a minor way to the original Statement published in 1967, and more substantially to the present edition, both in the revision of old sections and the writing of new passages. William M. Gibson was the major drafter of the first edition, G. Thomas Tanselle of the revision.
"Historical Introductions vs. Personal Interpretations," Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 76 (1972), p. 19.
"A Selected Edition of William Dean Howells: A Review Article," Proof: The Yearbook of American Bibliographical and Textual Studies, 2 (1972), pp. 319 332.
"New Evidence on the Reception of Pierre," Extracts: An Occasional Newsletter of the Melville Society, No. 13 (January 1973), p. 7.
"The Confidence Man and the Use of Evidence in Compositional Studies: A Rejoinder," Nineteenth Century Fiction, 28 (June 1973), pp. 119 129.
"Three Mark Twain Editions," Nineteenth Century Fiction, 28 (September 1973), pp. 225 229.
Review of J. A. Leo Lemay, Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland, Eighteenth Century Studies, 7 (Fall 1973), pp. 110 112.
"Regularizing Accidentals: The Latest Form of Infidelity," Proof: The Yearbook of American Bibliographical and Textual Studies, 3 (1973) pp 1 20.
"Practical Editions: Herman Melville's Moby Dick," Proof: The Yearbook of American Bibliographical and Textual Studies, 3 (1973), pp. 371 378.
"'Quite an Original!'" Extracts: An Occasional Newsletter of the Melville Society, No. 16 (November 1973), pp. 9 10.
"Melville," Chapter 3 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1972, ed. J. Albert Robbins (Durham: Duke University Press, 1974), pp. 40 58.
"The CEAA: An Interim Assessment," Hershel Parker with Bruce Bebb, Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America, 68 (Second Quarter 1974), pp. 129 148.
"Dead Letters and Melville's 'Bartleby,'" Resources for American Literary Study, 4 (Spring 1974), pp. 90 99.
Review of Everett Emerson, ed., Major Writers of Early American Literature, Eighteenth Century Studies, 7 (Summer 1974), pp. 514 516.
"What Quentin Saw 'Out There,'" Mississippi Quarterly, 27 (Summer 1974), pp. 323 326. Reprinted, Arthur F. Kinney, ed., Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Sutpen Family, (New York: G. K. Hall, 1996), pp. 275-278.
"Sober Second Thoughts: Fitzgerald's 'Final Version' of Tender is the Night," Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker, Proof: The Yearbook of American Bibliographical and Textual Studies, 4 (1975), pp. 129 152.
"Melville," Chapter 4 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1973 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1975), pp. 65 84.
"The Aesthetics of Editorial Apparatuses," Editorial Quarterly 1 (First Quarter 1975), pp. 4 8.
"Being Professional in Working on Moby Dick," College Literature, 2 (Fall 1975) pp. 192 197.
"Desideratum," The Direction Line: A Newsletter for Bibliographers and Textual Critics, No. 1 (Autumn 1975), p. 20.
"Freehafer on Greg and the CEAA: Secure Footing and 'Substantial Shortfalls,'" Bruce Bebb and Hershel Parker, Studies in the Novel, 7 (Fall 1975), pp. 391 394.
"Evidences for 'Late Insertions' in Melville's Works," Studies in the Novel, 7 (Fall 1975), pp. 407 424.
Checklist of Melville Reviews, Steven Mailloux and Hershel Parker (Los Angeles: The Melville Society, 1975), pp. ix and 90.
Review of Joseph Flibbert, Melville and the Art of Burlesque, Yearbook of English Studies (1976), pp. 317 318.
Review of the Bruccoli Clark The Red Badge of Courage: A Facsimile Edition of the Manuscript, ed. Fredson Bowers, and the University Press of Virginia The Red Badge of Courage, ed. Fredson Bowers, Nineteenth Century Fiction, 30 (March 1976), pp. 558 562.
"Melville," Chapter 4 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1974 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1976), pp. 43 59.
"Why Pierre Went Wrong," Studies in the Novel, 8 (Spring 1976), pp. 7 23.
Review of R. Bruce Bickley, Jr., The Method of Melville's Short Fiction, Modern Language Quarterly 37 (September 1976), pp. 295 298.
Review of G. M. Sweeney, Melville's Use Of Classical Mythology, Yearbook of English Studies (1977), pp. 201 202.
"Contract: Pierre, by Herman Melville," Proof: The Yearbook of American Bibliographical and Textual Studies, 5 (1977), pp. 27 44.
"Melville," Chapter 4 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1975 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1977), pp. 59 82.
"Conjectural Emendations: An Illustration from the Topography of Pierre's Mind," Literary Research Newsletter, 3 (Spring 1978), pp. 62 66.
Guest Editor, Special Number on Stephen Crane, Studies in the Novel, 10 (Spring 1978), and author of the preface, pp. 6 7.
"Maggie's 'Last Night': Authorial Design and Editorial Patching," Hershel Parker and Brian Higgins, Studies in the Novel, 10 (Spring 1978), pp. 64 75. Reprinted in the Norton Critical Edition of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (New York: W. W. Norton, 1979), pp. 234 45.
"Melville," Chapter 4 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1976 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1978), pp. 47 59.
"Exigencies of Composition and Publication: Billy Budd, Sailor and Pudd'nhead Wilson," Hershel Parker and Henry Binder, Nineteenth Century Fiction, 33 (June 1978), pp. 131 143. The issue was reprinted as Narrative Endings (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979).
"Aesthetic Implications of Authorial Excisions: Examples from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Stephen Crane," in Editing Nineteenth Century Fiction, ed. Jane Millgate (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978), pp. 99 119.
"The Flawed Grandeur of Melville's Pierre," Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker, in New Perspectives on Melville, ed. Faith Pullin (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1978), pp. 162 196. (1000 copies were distributed in the United States with a Kent State University Press title page and a 1979 publication date.) Reprinted, slightly revised, in Critical Essays on Herman Melville's "Pierre" (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983), pp. 240 266). Reprinted again, in part, in Herman Melville: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Myra Jehlen in the New Century Views series (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1994), 126-138.
Review of Edgar A. Dryden, Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Poetics of Enchantment, Studies in American Fiction, 6 (Autumn 1978), pp. 239 240.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 2 vols. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1979), editor of "American Literature 1820 1865," vol. 1.
Review of the Ohio State University Press editions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The American Claimant Manuscripts and The Elixir of Life Manuscripts, Nineteenth Century Fiction, 33 (March 1979), pp. 489 492.
"Melville," Chapter 4 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1977 (Durham: Duke University Press 1979), pp. 49 63.
"Tromping through Fairyland: Two Books on Melville's Tales," a review of Marvin Fisher, Going Under: Melville's Short Fiction and the American 1850s and William B. Dillingham, Melville's Short Fiction, 1853 1856, in Review, 1 (1979), pp. 183 193.
"The 'Sequel' in 'Bartleby,'" in Bartleby the Inscrutable, ed. M. Thomas Inge (Hamden, Conn: Archon Books, 1979), pp. 159 165.
Review of Edward F. Edinger, Melville's "Moby Dick": A Jungian Commentary, Studies in the Novel, 11 (Summer 1979), pp. 242 244.
"A Modest Proposal," Melville Society Extracts, No. 40 (November 1979), pp. 6 7.
Series editor and author of the "Foreword" to Lea Bertani Vozar Newman's A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1979), p. ix.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Edition (New York: W. W. Norton, 1980). (A one volume selection from the two volume 1979 edition.)
"Melville," Chapter 9 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1978 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1980), pp. 43 58.
Review of Rowland Sherrill, The Prophetic Melville: Experience, Transcendence, and Tragedy, Studies in American Fiction, 8 (Autumn 1980), pp. 248 249
Review of the Kent State University Press edition of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, The Eighteenth Century: A Critical Bibliography, n.s. 3 (1981), pp. 177 179.
The Endless, Winding Way in Melville: New Charts by Kring and Carey, eds. Donald Yannella and Hershel Parker (Glassboro: The Melville Society, 1981), pp. vi and 53.
"The Dates of Stephen Crane's Letters to Amy Leslie," PBSA, 75 (First Quarter, 1981), pp. 82 86.
"The Chaotic Legacy of the New Criticism and the Fair Augury of the New Scholarship," Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker, in Ruined Eden of the Present: Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe (Critical Essays in Honor of Darrel Abel), eds. G. R. Thompson and Virgil L. Lokke (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1981), pp. 27 45.
"Melville," Chapter 4 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1979 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1981), pp. 47 59.
Review of the Kent State University Press edition of Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn, Nineteenth Century Fiction, 36 (September 1981), pp. 196 198.
Review of the State University of New York Press edition of James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers and The Pathfinder, Nineteenth Century Fiction, 36 (September 1981), pp. 199 201.
"Melville and the Berkshires: Emotion Laden Terrain, 'Reckless, Sky Assaulting Mood,' and Encroaching Wordsworthianism," in American Literature: The New England Heritage, eds. James Nagel and Richard Astro (New York: Garland, 1981), pp. 65 80.
"The 'New Scholarship': Textual Evidence and Its Implications for Criticism, Literary Theory, and Aesthetics," Studies in American Fiction, 9 (Autumn 1981), pp. 18l 97.
"The Lowdown on Pudd'nhead Wilson: Jack Leg Novelist, Unreadable Text, Sense Making Critics, and Basic Issues in Aesthetics," Resources for American Literary Study, 11 (Autumn l98l), pp. 215 40.
Review of Sister Carrie in the Pennsylvania Edition of Theodore Dreiser, Resources for American Literary Study, 11 (Autumn 1981), pp. 332 36.
"Norman Mailer's Revision of the Esquire Version of An American Dream and the Aesthetic Problem of 'Built in Intentionality,'" Bulletin of Research in the Humanities, 84 (Winter 1981), pp. 405 30. [Published February 1983]
Review of Andrew Gordon, An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer, and of Robert J. Begiebing, Acts of Regeneration: Allegory and Archetype in the Works of Norman Mailer, Studies in American Fiction, 10 (Spring l982), pp. 121 24.
"Melville," Chapter 4 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1980 (Durham: Duke University Press, l982), pp. 57 66.
Israel Potter, The Writings of Herman Melville, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, l982), pp. x and 402.
Essay review on "The Mark Twain Project,"Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 8l (October 1982), pp. 596 604.
Typee, Omoo, Mardi (New York: Library of America, 1982), reprint of the Northwestern-Newberry texts, with notes by G. Thomas Tanselle.
"The Determinacy of the Creative Process and the 'Authority' of the Author's Textual Decisions," College Literature, 10 (Spring 1983), pp. 99 125.
Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (New York: Library of America, 1983), reprint of the Northwestern-Newberry texts, with notes by G. Thomas Tanselle.
"Lost Authority: Non sense, Skewed Meanings, and Intentionless Meanings," Critical Inquiry, 9 (June 1983), pp. 767 74. Reprinted in W. J. T. Mitchell, ed., Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985), pp. 72 79.
Critical Essays on Herman Melville's PIERRE, eds. Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983), x and 271.
"Introduction" to Critical Essays on Herman Melville's PIERRE, Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker, pp. 1 27, a revision and expansion, by Higgins and Parker, of two of Parker's earlier essays, "Why Pierre Went Wrong" (1976) and "Contract: Pierre, by Herman Melville" (1977).
The Confidence Man, The Writings of Herman Melville, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1984).
"Historical Note" in The Confidence Man, by Watson Branch, Harrison Hayford, and Hershel Parker, with Alma MacDougall, pp. 253 357.
"Henry James 'In the Wood': Sequence and Significances of his Literary Labors, 1905 1907," Nineteenth Century Fiction, 38 (March 1984), pp. 492 513. (Special issue honoring Blake Nevius.)
Review of Eugene F. Irey, A Concordance to Herman Melville's MOBY DICK, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 7 (Numbers l and 2, 1983), pp. 54 57.
Review of James Duban, Melville's Major Fiction Politics, Theology, and Imagination, Nineteenth Century Fiction, 39 (December 1984), pp. 358 361.
Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literary Authority in American Fiction (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1984), pp. xix and 249.
"Cheap Thrills: Lost 'Authority' and Adventitious Aesthetic Frissons," in American Critics at Work: Examinations of Contemporary Literary Theories, ed. Victor A. Kramer (Troy: Whitston Publishing Co., 1984), pp. 316 333.
Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Uncollected Prose, Billy Budd, Sailor (New York: Library of America, 1984), reprint of the Northwestern-Newberry texts, with notes by Harrison Hayford.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 2nd Edition (New York: W. W. Norton, 1985), ed. of the 1820 1865 section in Volume One. (Three authors are added; selections of most other authors are somewhat changed.)
"The Germ Theory of The Scarlet Letter", The Hawthorne Society Newsletter, 11 (Spring 1985), pp. 11 13.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Second Edition Shorter (New York: W. W. Norton, 1986), ed. of the 1820 1865 section. (This is a new selection from the material in the 1985 2nd Edition edition.)
"The Character of Vine in Melville's Clarel," University of New Haven Essays in Arts and Sciences, 15 (June 1986), pp. 91 113.
"Reading Pierre," Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker, in A Companion to Melville Studies, ed. John Bryant (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986), pp. 211 239.
"Getting Used to the 'Original Form' of The Red Badge of Courage," in New Essays on "The Red Badge of Courage", ed. Lee Clark Mitchell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 25 47.
The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville (Evanston: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1987). (I contributed to this volume only in my advisory capacity as Associate General Editor of the entire edition.)
"'The Text Itself' Whatever That Is," Text: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, 3 (New York: AMS Press, 1987), pp. 47-54.
Essay-review, "The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper," University of Mississippi Studies in English, n.s. 5 (1984-1987), pp. 110-119.
Review of A Companion to Melville Studies, ed. John Bryant, Nineteenth-Century Literature, 42 (March 1988), pp. 508-512.
Moby-Dick, The Writings of Herman Melville (Evanston: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1988). For this volume the three editors, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle, also wrote the "Historical Note" (my part is monograph length--135 pages).
"Glimpses of the Henry James Who Earned His Living," Review, 10 (1988), pp. 159-165.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 3rd Edition (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), two volumes, ed. of the 1820 1865 section in Volume One. (For this edition there are relatively minor additions or subtractions; for one new Thoreau selection, the essay on Carlyle, I did a good deal of research because no one had ever annotated it. I also brought the bibliographies up-to-date.)
CHECK--1988-1989?
Review of Larry Edward Wegener, A Concordance to Herman Melville's "Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities," Resources for American Literary Study, 16 (1986-1989), pp. 109-113.
Review of Mara Kalnins's edition of D. H. Lawrence, Aaron's Rod (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), D. H. Lawrence Review, 20 (Fall 1988), pp. 339-341.
Journals, The Writings of Herman Melville, (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1989), ix and 683. For this volume, edited by Howard C. Horsford, Lynn Horth, and Harrison Hayford, I served only in the capacity of Associate General Editor of the edition, making some confirmatory transcriptions from manuscripts, supplying biographical information for some of the notes, supplying private photographs of a wax scene Melville saw in Florence, and drafting two or three discussion notes.
"The New Melville Log," in "Announcements," American Literature, 61 (October 1989), p. 446.
"Very Loose Fish," Melville Society Extracts, 75 (November 1988 [published November 1989]), pp. 14-15, a short version of the progress report on The New Melville Log in Modern Language Studies (Winter 1990).
"Billy Budd, Foretopman and the Dynamics of Canonization," College Literature, 17 (Winter 1990), pp. 21-32 (Bernard Oldsey's "Farewell Issue").
"Herman Melville's The Isle of the Cross: A Survey and a Chronology," American Literature, 62 (March 1990), pp. 1-16.
"The New Melville Log: A Progress Report and an Appeal," Modern Language Studies, 20 (Winter 1990), pp. 53-66.
"Melville to Duyckinck: A New Letter," Melville Society Extracts, 81 (May 1990), p. 9.
Review of David S. Reynolds's Beneath the American Renaissance, Modern Language Quarterly, 49 (September 1988 [published September 1990]), pp. 298-302.
"A Position Paper on Authorial Intention and the Socialization of Texts," Documentary Editing, 12 (September 1990), pp. 62-65. (This is part of an exchange of views; Jerome J. McGann's "The Socialization of Texts" appears on 56-61 in the same issue.)
"Textual Criticism and Hemingway," lead essay in Hemingway: Essays of Reassessment, edited by Frank Scafella, a collection consisting mainly of talks given at the Third International Conference held in Schruns, Austria, in June 1988 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 17-31.
Reading "Billy Budd" (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1990), pp. ix and 190. Billy Budd: Lesen & Verstehen (Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press, 2010), translated by Ernst A. Chantelau is a German edition of this book.
Clarel, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University and the Newberry Library, 1991); in addition to co-editing this volume I contributed a 35-page "Historical Supplement" to Walter E. Bezanson's "Historical and Critical Essay" (slightly revised from its publication as the Introduction to the Hendricks House edition of Clarel, 1960).
"Herman Melville," American History Illustrated, 26 (September-October 1991), pp. 28-47; cover story (lead article) in commemoration of the centennial of Melville's death.
"The Price of Diversity: A Minority Report on the American Literary Canon," College Literature, 18 (October, 1991), pp. 15-29.
"The Reviewing of Scholarly Editions," Editors' Notes, 10 (Fall 1991), 16-24.
Checklist of Melville Reviews, by Kevin J. Hayes and Hershel Parker, revised from the 1975 Checklist by Steven Mailloux and Hershel Parker (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1991).
Critical Essays on Herman Melville's MOBY-DICK, eds. Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker (New York: G. K. Hall, 1992), xiii and 570. For this collection Higgins and I wrote the long introduction, pp. 1-36, and I wrote a separate piece for a "New Essays" section at the end of the volume, to which John Wenke and David S. Reynolds also contributed.
"Moby-Dick and Domesticity," pp. 545-562, in Critical Essays on Herman Melville's MOBY-DICK, eds. Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker (New York: G. K. Hall, 1992), pp. 545-562.
"Letter to the Editor," Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography (1992), New Series 6, nos. 3 & 4, 216-217, response to an earlier letter from Fredson Bowers. (Published October 1994 although dated 1992.)
The Correspondence of Herman Melville, in The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1993), re-edited from the 1960 Merrell R. Davis and William H. Gilman edition of the Letters; for this volume Harrison Hayford was General Editor, I was Associate General Editor, and G. Thomas Tanselle was Bibliographical Editor. We all three contributed very substantially to this volume.
"New Melville Documents and Sub-Intentioned Death," in Suicidology: Essays in Honor of Edwin S. Shneidman, edited by A. Leenaars (Northvale, N. J.: Jason Aronson Inc., 1993), 289-298.
"Sarah Morewood's Last Drive, As Told in Caroline S. Whitmarsh's 'A Representative Woman,'" Hershel Parker with Edward Daunais, Melville Society Extracts, 93 (June 1993), pp. 1-4.
"Deconstructing The Art of the Novel and Liberating James's Prefaces," Henry James Review, 14 (Fall, 1993), 284-307.
"Herman Melville as Sex Symbol," in a collection edited by Professor Philippe Jaworski for a special Melville issue of Profils américains, No. 5 (1993), pp. 7-23.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 4th Edition (1994). For this edition I wrote a wholly new several-page author headnote for Emily Dickinson and made a new and larger selection of her poetry and wrote new annotations. I edited and included for the first time in any anthology Whitman's first group of homosexual poems, "Live Oak, with Moss," treating it frankly as a gay manifesto. I also updated the bibliographies for the period and made other comparatively minor changes.
Reprinting of "The Flawed Grandeur of Melville's Pierre," Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker, in Herman Melville: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Myra Jehlen in the New Century Views series (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1994), 126-138.
"The Lost Lathers Collections," by Eric Collum and Hershel Parker, Melville Society Extracts, 99 (December 1994), 26-28.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Fourth Edition (New York: W. W. Norton, 1995). (A one volume selection from the two volume 1994 edition.)
"Biography and Responsible Uses of the Imagination: Three Episodes from Melville's Homecoming in 1844," Resources for American Literary Study, 21 (1995), 16-42.
Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews, eds. Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker, or the Cambridge University series American Critical Archives (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), xxiv and 556 ("Introduction" ix-xxiv).
"Three New Melville Letters: Procrastination and Passports," Steven Olsen-Smith and Hershel Parker, Melville Society Extracts, No. 102 (September 1995), pp. 8-12.
Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, by Herman Melville, edited by Hershel Parker, pictures by Maurice Sendak (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), "Introduction" xi-xlvi, text 449 (with 30 illustrations).
"The Virginia Edition of Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Mirror for Textual Scholars," by Hershel Parker and Brian Higgins, Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 19 (Third Quarter, 1995), 131-166.
"The Auteur-Author Paradox: How Critics of the Cinema and the Novel Talk about Flawed or even 'Mutilated' Texts," Studies in the Novel, Vol. 27 (Fall, 1995), 413-426, in a special issue edited by Alexander Pettit on Editing Novels and Novelists, Now.
"What Quentin Saw 'Out There,'" in Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Sutpen Family, ed. Arthur F. Kinney (New York: G. K. Hall, 1996), pp. 275-278; reprinted from Mississippi Quarterly, 27 (Summer 1974), pp. 323 326.
"A Tribute to Harris's Sheriff Doltin Sequence," in Sut Lovingood's Nat'ral Born Yarnspinner: Essays on George Washington Harris, eds. James E. Caron and M. Thomas Inge (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996), 217-227.
Herman Melville: 1819-1851 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). 941 pages, illus. Winner in the category "Literature and Language" in the Association of American Publishers' Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Awards Competition for 1996. One of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, 1997.
"The Real 'Live Oak, with Moss': Straight Talk about Whitman's 'Gay Manifesto,'" Nineteenth-Century Literature, 51 (September 1996), pp. 145-160
"Chronologie," in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, No. 433, Herman Melville, Oeuvres, 1 ("Taïpi," "Omou," "Mardi"), ed. Philippe Jaworski, with Michel Imbert, Dominique Marçais, Mark Niemeyer, Hershel Parker, and Joseph Urbas (Paris: Gallimard, 1997), xxxv-liv.
"'Live Oak, with Moss' and 'Calamus': Textual Inhibitions in Whitman Criticism," Steven Olsen-Smith and Hershel Parker, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 14 (Spring 1997), pp. 153-165.
"Biographers on Biography: A Panel Discussion (Stanton Garner, Lynn Horth, Hershel Parker, Robert Ryan, and Donald Yannella)," in Melville's Evermoving Dawn: Centennial Essays ed. John Bryant and Robert Milder (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997), pp. 225-259.
"The Lost Poems (1860) and Melville's First Urge to Write an Epic Poem," in Melville's Evermoving Dawn: Centennial Essays ed. John Bryant and Robert Milder (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997), pp. 260-275.
"An Exchange between Alan Helms and Hershel Parker," Nineteenth-Century Literature, 52 (December 1997), 415-416.
"The Melville House at 104 East 26th Street," Harvard Library Bulletin, n.s. 8 (Winter, 1997), 37-45.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 5th Edition (1998). This is the most thoroughly revised edition yet. For it I wrote new author headnotes and selection headnotes and footnotes for Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, Fanny Fern, Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Prescott Spofford. I wrote new footnotes for additional selections by Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and other authors already represented in earlier editions of NAAL. I also updated the bibliographies for the period and made many other changes.
"Herman Melville," in American National Biography, Vol. 15 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999 [check date), pp. 277-283.
"Ahab's Wife Doesn't Belong on Same Shelf as Moby-Dick," San Francisco Chronicle (24 October 1999), 10.
The Norton Critical Edition of MOBY DICK, Second Edition, eds. Hershel Parker and Harrison Hayford (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), pp. xvii and 726.
"Melville's Reading and Moby-Dick: An Overview and a Bibliography," in The Norton Critical Edition of MOBY DICK, Second Edition (2001), 431-437.
"Before Moby-Dick: International Controversy over Melville," in The Norton Critical Edition of MOBY-DICK, Second Edition (2001), 465-470.
"Damned by Dollars: Moby-Dick and the Price of Genius," in The Norton Critical Edition of MOBY-DICK, Second Edition (2001), 713-726. Revised and reprinted in Living with a Writer, ed. Dale Salwak (London and New York: Palgrave/Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 2004), 202-222. [first copy received 30 August 2004]
"Foreword," in the Sesquicentennial issue of the Northwestern-Newberry Moby-Dick (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2001), pp. xiii-xvi.
"Melville and Hawthorne in the Berkshires," in Aspects of Melville, ed. David Scribner (Pittsfield: Berkshire County Historical Society at Arrowhead, 2001), 21-27.
"The Masterpiece That Ended a Career: Melville's Moby-Dick," Sea Letter 61 (Winter 2001), 10-13.
Herman Melville: A Biography, 1851-1891 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002). Xvii and 997. Winner in "Biography and Autobiography," Association of American Publishers' Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Award; listed as an "Outstanding Academic Title" in the January 2004 issue of Choice Magazine.
Norton Anthology of American Literature, 6th Edition (2002). Contains only a few new authors with new headnotes but a greatly rewritten general introduction.
Robin Grey and Douglas Robillard in consultation with Hershel Parker, "Melville's Milton: The Marginalia in The Poetical Works of John Milton: A Transcription of Melville's Annotation in His Copy of Milton," Leviathan, 4 (March and October 2002), 117-204. Reprinted in Melville and Milton: An Edition and Analysis of Melville's Annotations on Milton, ed. Robin Grey (Pittsburgh: DuQuesne University Press, 2004), 115-203.
"Foreword," in Harrison Hayford, Melville's Prisoners (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2003), vii-xi.
"What Hawthorne Meant to Melville," Harrison Hayford, introduced by Hershel Parker, Hawthorne Revisited: Honoring the Bicentennial of the Author's Birth, eds. Gordon Hyatt and David Scribner (Lenox: Lenox Library Association, 2004), 75-82.
"Chronologie," in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, No. 433, Herman Melville, Oeuvres, 2 ("Redburn" and "Vareuse-Blanche"), ed. Philippe Jaworski, with Michel Imbert, Hershel Parker, and Joseph Urbas (Paris: Gallimard, 2004), xiii-xviii. (A new chronology for 1849-1850, the period of this volume.)
“Damned by Dollars,” revised, in Living with a Writer, Dale Salwak, ed. (Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2004), 202-222.
With Mark Niemeyer, the Second Norton Critical Edition of The Confidence-Man (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006). This contains reprinted essays and (besides the Preface) three substantial new essays by Parker: "The Confidence Man's Masquerade," "Delusions of a 'Terrestrial Paradise,'" and "The Politics of Allegorizing Indian Hating."
"Chronologie," in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, No. 433, Herman Melville, Oeuvres, 3 ("Moby-Dick; Pierre ou les Ambiguités"]), ed. Philippe Jaworski, with Michel Imbert, Hershel Parker, and Joseph Urbas (Paris: Gallimard, 2006), xxxiii-xl. (A new chronology for 1850-1853, the period of this volume.)
Reading Melville's "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities", by Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. [Actually out April 2007.]
"The Isle of the Cross and Poems: Lost Melville Books and the Indefinite Afterlife of Error," Nineteenth-Century Literature 62 (June 2007), 29-47.
Melville: The Making of the Poet (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2008); available late November 2007 but dated 2008.
"James B. Meriwether: An Encounter," Mississippi Quarterly, 59:3-4 (Summer-Fall 2006), 391-393. [An excerpt from Ornery People, written before Meriwether's death on 18 March 2007, my pdf received 18 March 2008.]
"Foreword," in Herman Melville's Clarel (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2008), xiii-xxvii. (copies available August 2008).
Published Poems, Vol. 11 in The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle, and Alma MacDougall Reising (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2009); my paperback copy received 4 June 2009.
"Chronologie," in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Herman Melville, Oeuvres, 4 ("Bartleby le scribe; Billy Budd, marin; et autres romans), ed. Philippe Jaworski, with David Lapoujade and Hershel Parker (Paris: Gallimard, 201-), xxi-xlii. (A new chronology for 1852-1891, the period of this volume.) Received 4 March 2010.
"The 'New Scholarship': Textual Evidence and Its Implications for Criticism, Literary Theory, and Aesthetics," Studies in American Fiction, 9 (Autumn 1981), pp. 18l 97. Reprinted in Ecdotica 6 (University of Bologna, 2009), in Anglo-American Scholarly Editing, 1980-2005 (Bulogna: University of Bulogna, 2010), 30-46. [copy received 5 June 2010]
Billy Budd: Lesen & Verstehen (Düsselforf: Düsseldorf University Press, 2010), translated by Ernst A. Chantelau. This is a German edition of my Reading “Billy Budd” (1990).
“The Talented Ripley Hitchcock,” American Literary Realism, 43 (Winter 2011), pp. 175-182. [Available on Muse 6 January 2011, paper copy soon afterwards]
The Powell Papers (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2011), a collection of documents on an international crook who precipitated a literary scandal (involving Charles Dickens, Washington Irving and Herman Melville).
From Northwestern University Press Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative, not a condensation of the two-volume edition but a different kind of work, first part autobiographical of me as biographer, second part about the hostility of critics to biographical scholarship, third part a series of chapters demonstrating the work of biography, and endnotes relating problems in Melville biography to problems encountered by many other biographers, primarily British.
In progress: The three-volume third edition of The New Melville Log, Hershel Parker and Jay Leyda (New York: Gordian Press) and perhaps an electronic version of the entire 9,000 page archive. This functions as my private archive of archives. The owner of Gordian Press has come to life early in 2009 and we are at work on a 3-volume print edition. On 24 June 2010 Robert Sandberg agreed to do the coding and layout; in April 2011 I should have given him all the first pass of the first volume, 1819-June 1849.
Next project, "Things Incomplete and Purposes Betrayed" (working title, from Wordsworth)--the Historical Note for BILLY BUDD, SAILOR and Other Uncompleted Writings. This has been in progress since June 2009--the story of Melville's working life after 1860.
Ultimate project: Ornery People, stories about my American ancestors whom I had thought, prior to 2002, to have left almost no written record.
H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus, University of Delaware
EDUCATION:
1959 B.A. Lamar State College of Technology
1960 M.A. Northwestern University
1963 Ph.D. Northwestern University
AWARDS:
1959 60 Woodrow Wilson Fellowship
1960 61 Northwestern University Fellowship
1962 63 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship
1965 University of Illinois Faculty Summer Fellowship (declined)
1970 USC Bing Summer Research Fellowship
1974-75 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship USC
1975 Creative Scholarship and Research Award The USC Associates Awards, the highest honors the university faculty bestows upon its members for distinguished intellectual and artistic achievements and for outstanding teaching, both in and out of the classroom.
1981 1982 Research Fellowship from the University of Delaware Center for Advanced Study (year off to write Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons)
1997 Finalist (one of two) for the Pulitzer Prize in biography.
1997 Winner of the highest award in "Literature and Language" category in the Association of American Publishers' Professional / Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Awards in the 1996 Competition.
2003 Winner of the highest award in "Biography and Autobiography" (a new and more appropriate category) in the Association of American Publishers' Professional / Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Awards in the 2002 Competition.
10 December 2008 at opening ceremony of the CUNY Leon Levy Center for Biography on "Crafting an Eloquent Beginning" John T. Matteson read aloud the first paragraph of Herman Melville: A Biography, 1819-1851, saying “The opening paragraph should reflect the character of the subject, the way the music of a great aria fits the mood of the words being sung.”
ACADEMIC RANKS:
1961 1962 Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University
1963 1965 Assistant Professor, University of Illinois
1965 1968 Assistant Professor, Northwestern University (Visiting Professor, Northwestern University, Summer 1973)
1968 1970 Associate Professor, University of Southern California
1970 1979 Professor, USC
1977 1979 Bruce R. McElderry Research Scholar, USC
1979 1998 H. Fletcher Brown Professor, University of Delaware
1998- H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus, University of Delaware
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION:
Director of Graduate Studies, USC 1975 1978
UNIVERSITY POSTS:
Member of the committee to judge Delaware dissertations for the Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize in the Humanities, 1981
Member of the committee to evaluate applications for grants from the University of Delaware Center for Advanced Study, 1983
Member of the committee to evaluate the dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, 1984 1985
Member of the board of the University Press of Delaware, 1990-1991
PROFESSIONAL POSTS:
Associate General Editor of The Writings of Herman Melville, 1965 Present (fourteen volumes published by 2009, the fifteenth due out late in 2013)
General Editor, The Writings of Herman Melville (for the last two volumes)
Examiner for the Center for Editions of American Authors (with work in Austin, Berkeley, Chicago, Columbia, Columbus, Iowa City, Los Angeles, New York, San Marino, and Washington, 1969 1976)
Member of the CEAA Advisory Committee, 1971 1974
Regional Representative for the Melville Society and Program Chairman for the 1971 meeting (Chicago)
Member of the Executive Committee of the MLA Bibliographical Evidence Committee, 1971 1973
Contributor of the Melville chapter to nine successive volumes of the MLA sponsored annual, American Literary Scholarship, 1972 1980
Field Editor in Nineteenth Century American Literature for G. K. Hall, 1974 1980
Member of the Editorial Board of Nineteenth Century Fiction,1976 1986 and under the new title Nineteenth Century Literature, 1986 1990 (Resigned to concentrate on the Melville biography and The New Melville Log.) (June 2007: identified as having contributed to NCF and NCL during five decades.)
Member of the MLA Executive Committee for American Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1976 1980
Examiner for the Center for Scholarly Editions, 1977 1987
Member of the Editorial Board of Review, 1977 1990
Chairman of the Norman Foerster Prize Committee to select theyear's best article in American Literature, 1977
Member of the Editorial Board of Literary Research Newsletter, 1978 1985
Program Chairman, American Literature of the Nineteenth Century, MLA, 1979 (San Francisco)
Program Chairman, Melville Society Meeting at MLA, 1979 (San Francisco)
Member of the Editorial Board of Studies in American Fiction, 1979 1990 (I resigned from all editorial boards early in 1990.)
Member of the Editorial Board of American Literature, 1980 1984
Program Chairman of the Melville Society Meeting at New Bedford, June 1980
Secretary of the SAMLA Textual and Bibliographical Studies section, 1981 (Chairman 1982)
Member of the NEH Division of Research Programs Panel for Editions of American Materials, Washington, D.C., March 1981
Member of the Editorial Board of South Atlantic Review, 1981 1984
Program Chairman of the SAMLA Textual and Bibliographical Studies section in Atlanta, November 1982
Member of the Discipline Screening Committee of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright Foundation), 1983 1986. (Stayed on by request for both the Summer and Fall 1986 meetings in Washington, D. C.)
Member of the MLA Executive Committee, Division on Methods of Literary Research, 1984 1988
Program Chairman of the MLA Division on Methods of Literary Research for the 1987 San Francisco MLA, and organizer of three sessions: "Problems with Evidence in Telling or Retelling Episodes in American Literary History (A Tribute to William Charvat)," chaired by Leo Lemay (in my absence for my father's funeral); "Teaching the Course in Methods of Literary Research: Redefined Goals, New Technologies," chaired by David J. Nordloh; "Enhancing the Archive You Work In," chaired by Robert H. Hirst.
Member of the MLA Hubbell Medal Committee (1989-1993)
President of the Melville Society, 1991
Member of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend selection panel, November 1991
Member of the Board of the "Friends of Herman Melville's Arrowhead," 1991-1998 (supporting Arrowhead, by annual contributions, by supplying new documentation about the house to use in promotion flyers, by transporting artifacts, by supplying 25 copies of the centennial issue on Melville in American History Illustrated, and in miscellaneous ways).
Member of the National Endowment for the Humanities Publications Subvention panel, 29 May 1992
Author of the eulogy of Merton M. Sealts, Jr., and presenter of the Hubbell Medal to him at the American Literature Section luncheon, at the New York City MLA, December 28, 1992.
Chairman of the Hubbell Medal Committee, 1993.
MISCELLANEOUS PROFESSIONAL ROLES:
Participant in various Melville Society meetings and in meetings of the CEAA editors and Advisory Committee members in Chicago, New York, Denver, Washington, Berkeley, Columbia, San Francisco, and other cities
Reader of articles submitted to journals (other than the journals for which I was a member of the editorial boards) and frequent reader of manuscripts submitted to commercial and university presses
Evaluator of scholarly achievements for many English departments in the United States and Canada
Evaluator of many scholarly projects for NEH, the Guggenheim Foundation, and other institutions
Bit player in Voyager production of PBS film on Herman Melville (interview filmed in New Bedford 19 December 1981, broadcast Spring 1985)
Nominator for the Ritz Paris Hemingway Award, 1985 1986
Participant with Neville Shack of the BBC in a radio program commemorating the centenary of Herman Melville's death (interviewed by telephone 21 August 1991 at WHYY studios in Philadelphia)
Participant with Nancy Beardsley of the Voice of America in a radio program commemorating the centenary of Herman Melville's death (interviewed by telephone 6 September 1991 at WILM studios in Wilmington)
Participant in September 1991 at commemorations of the centennial of Melville's death: in Los Angeles on 10 September I consulted with Edwin Shneidman on his brochure for the gift of his Melville collection to UCLA on 28 September, since I had to refuse an invitation to speak on that occasion; as President of the Melville Society I attended the lectures by Hayford and Tanselle at the New York Public Library on 24 September; on 28 September 1991 I attended a commemoration of Melville's death at the home of one of his great-grandsons in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Interview with Leonard Lopate for WNYC Radio on 28 November 1995 on the Kraken Edition of Pierre; it was broadcast before 11 January 1996.
Fifteen-minute interview by Hermione Lee for BBC3--broadcast 27 November 1996
Hour-long interview on the Marc Steiner Show on WJHU Radio, Baltimore, 6 February 1997
January 2001 Interview with with Radio Free Europe
PAPERS DELIVERED:
"The Metaphysics of Indian hating," read to the Melville Society at the Chicago meeting during MLA, December 1960
"Melville's Unknown Revisions of Moby Dick," read to the Melville Society at the Chicago meeting during MLA, December 1965
"Conjectural Emendations in Melville," read to a meeting of CEAA editors at Chicago, October 1967
"'HERMAN MELVILLE CRAZY': New Light on the Reception of Pierre," read to the Melville Society at the Chicago meeting during MLA, December 1971
"Moby Dick: Practical Editions," read at the Proof Forum during MLA at New York City, December 1972
"Editing Melville: Theories, Techniques, and Ethics," read to the Melville Society at Chicago during MLA, December 1973
"Bowery Tale or Bowersy Tale," presented to an Occidental College Faculty Discussion Group session, January 1975
"Interpretive Implications of Textual Evidence," read to the English Conference of the University of California at Riverside, February 1975
"The Ambiguous Portrait of Vine in Melville's Clarel," read to the Melville Society Centennial Celebration of the publication of Clarel, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, May 1976
"Reviewers of CEAA Editions," delivered at an MLA Forum on "Reviews and Reviewing," New York City, December 1976
"Aesthetic Implications of Authorial Excisions," read to the Toronto Conference on Editorial Problems, November 1977
"The Composition and Meaning of Pudd'nhead Wilson," read to the English Department of the University of California at Berkeley, November 1977
"Aesthetic Implications of Textual Evidence in Fiction," read to the English Department of the University of California at Berkeley, November 1977
Participant at the MLA Forum on "The Red Badge of Courage: What Stephen Crane wrote vs. What the Critics Have Read," Chicago, December 1977
Pudd'nhead Wilson: Composition and Meaning," a longer version of the paper already listed, delivered to the English Department of the University of Tennessee, January 1978
Respondent at the Conference on Literary and Historical Editing at Lawrence, Kansas, September 1978
"Norman Mailer's Revision of An American Dream and the Aesthetic Problem of 'Built in' Intentionality," read at the Bibliographical and Textual Studies section on Authorial Intentionality at the South Atlantic MLA in Atlanta, November 1979
"Melville and the Berkshires: Emotion Laden Terrain, 'Reckless Sky Assaulting Mood,' and Encroaching Wordsworthianism," read at the Northeastern University Conference on "American Literature: The New England Heritage," May 1980
"Melville in the 1980's," read at the University of Wyoming Conference on "Melville and the Critics" at Laramie, June 1980
"The Reviewing of the CEAA and CSE Editions," read at the section of American Blbliographical and Textual Studies at the Houston MLA, December 1980
"Mailer's Revisions of An American Dream and the Aesthetic Problem of 'Built in' Intentionality" (a version of the 1979 SAMLA talk), read at the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, April 1981
"Interpretation in Editing: The Red Badge of Courage as a Test Case," read at the Association for Documentary Editing conference at Madison, Wisconsin, October 1981
"Style and Sex in G. W. Harris's Sheriff Doltin Sequence," read at the American Literature Section at the Louisville South Atlantic MLA, November 1981
"Some Modern Literary Theories and Textual Criticism," delivered to the University of Delaware English Department Criticism Group, December 1981
"The Goddess of Invention Outcast of the MLA," read at the Textual Scholarship and Literary Theory session at the New York City MLA, December 1981
"The Ambiguous Portrait of Vine in Melville's Clarel," read at the Nineteenth Century American Literature section at the Northeast MLA in New York City, April 1982 (a version of the May 1976 paper)
"Cheap Thrills: Lost Authority and Adventitious Experiences," read at the Textual and Bibliographical Studies session at the South Central MLA in San Antonio, October 1982
"'The Text Itself'—Whatever That Is," read at the Textual Meaning session of the Society for Textual Scholarship meeting in New York City, April 1983
"The Politics of Restoring The Red Badge of Courage: The Private History of a Campaign that Succeeded?" read to the Literary Fellowship meeting in Philadelphia, October 1983
"The Irrationality of Greg's Rationale," read at the South Central MLA Meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, October 1983
"The 'Novelistic Fallacy' in American Fiction," read at the Bibliography and Textual Studies session at the South Atlantic MLA meeting in Atlanta, October 1983
"Losing Control," read at the Division of Methods of Literary Research at the New York City MLA, December 1983
"The Excessive Rationality of Greg's Rationale," read at the Bibliography and Textual Studies Discussion group at the New York City MLA, December 1983 (a variant of the October 1983 talk in Fort Worth)
"Literary Authority: A Position Paper," read at the special session on "Authority and the Author," NEMLA, Philadelphia, March 1984
"The Germ Theory of The Scarlet Letter," read at the American Literature section at SAMLA in Atlanta, November 1984
"The Politics of Expanding the Canon," read in a special session on "Gender / Politics / History: The Shaping of a Canon," at the Washington, D. C., MLA, December 1984
"The Portrait of a Lady: Versions vs. Discrete Works," read at the Methods of Literary Research session at the Washington MLA, December 1984
"Multiple vs. Single Copy Texts in Henry James," read at the Society for Textual Scholarship, New York City, April 1985
"Literary Authority in American Fiction," Keynote Address at the Association of Departments of English conference, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, June 1985
"Herman Melville's 'Suicide Notes,'" read at the American Psychological Association meeting in Los Angeles, August 1985
"A Little Brief Authority," read at the SAMLA meeting in Atlanta, November 1985
"Getting Used to The Red Badge of Courage as Crane Wrote It," read at the Chicago MLA December 1985
"You Can't Say That about Pierre," read at the Philological Association of the Carolinas at the Charleston meeting, March 1986
"The Endurance of Error: Cloister Life and 'Benito Cereno,'" read at the NEMLA meeting at Rutgers, April 1986
"Traveling Heavy with Faulkner Texts: The Burdens of Intertextuality," read at the session on "Manuscript, Typescript, Text: The Composition of Faulkner's Novels," New York City MLA December 1986
Keynote speech and participation in other programs at the Symposium of the Society for Critical Exchange 27 29 March 1987 in Oxford, Ohio (a conference devoted to Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons)
Participant with David Greetham and Donald Reiman at Speed Hill's CUNY class symposium on Textual Editing and Textual Theory, May 1988
"How Thomas Powell and Herman Melville Hurt Washington Irving in 1849-1850: Hard Year for the Old Man," given at the meeting of the NEMLA at Providence, R.I., March 1988
"On MS and Textual Study of Hemingway," given at the Third International Conference of the Hemingway Conference Schruns, Austria, June 1988
Participant in a Panel on "An Alpine Idyl," Schruns, Austria, June 1988
With Harrison Hayford I made a three-week tour of Japanese colleges and universities in October 1989; I gave the following talks:
At Meiji University in Tokyo: "New Discoveries in Melville Biography"
At the American Center in Sopporo, "New Discoveries in Melville Biography" (somewhat different from the talk at Meiji)
At Doshisha University in Kyoto: "The Continuity Between the New Criticism and the New Historicism"
At Okayama University, before the American Studies Association of Japan: "The Continuity Between the New Criticism and the New Historicism" (a longer version of the talk at Kyoto)
At Tokyo University: "The American Infrastructure--National and Academic"
At Shukutoku Junior College: "My Candid Impressions of Japan" (a topic requested by the hosts)
"Authorial Intention and the New Historicism," given at the annual meeting of the Association for Documentary Editing in Washington, D. C., November 1989
"Writing a Life in a Decade of Theory," given in Albuquerque at a meeting of the English Department of the University of New Mexico, November 1990
"The Puissance and Pusillanimity of the Anthology Editor," delivered at the second American Literature Section session at the Chicago MLA, December 1990
"Historical Research vs. the New Historicism," given at the Melville panel organized by the Association for Documentary Editing at the Chicago MLA, December 1990
"Melville's 'First' Whaling Plans (1839) and his Welcome Home (1844)," delivered at the Millicent Library ceremony at Fairhaven on 3 January 1991, the 150th anniversary of the sailing of the Acushnet; I spoke as President of the Melville Society, representing the Society
"Writing a Life in an Age of Theory," public lecture at the University of Delaware, 10 April 1991 (almost altogether different from the talk of the similar name in November 1990)
"Deconstructing The Art of the Novel and Recovering James's Prefaces," given at the Society for Textual Scholarship, 6th International Conference in New York, 13 April 1991.
"Panel on Melville Biography"--participation in a panel at the Melville Society Centenary Meeting in Pittsfield, May 1991, sharing some new stories from my biography.
"Melville as Sex Symbol," given at a panel on Melville at the 3 April 1992 NEMLA meeting in Buffalo, New York.
"Extraordinary Twins: The New Critics and the New Historicists Read Pudd'nhead Wilson," given at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, Clemson, S. C., April 25, 1992.
"The Morewoods' Fancy-Dress Pic-nics at Melville Lake," given on August 8, 1992, before the Berkshire County Historical Society, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, at a fund-raiser for Melville's house, Arrowhead; the other speaker was the artist and Melville-lover, Maurice Sendak.
"Melville as Sex Symbol," repeated in a longer version at Nantucket, Massachusetts, in the Great Hall of the Athenaeum, October 13, 1992.
"'Poems by Herman Melville' (1860) and the Purpose of Melville's Reading on his Voyage around the Horn on the Meteor" delivered at "The American Renaissance and Historical Scholarship," an MLA session organized by David Reynolds for December 1992, NYC. (David S. Reynolds, Jerome Loving, Hershel Parker; Philip Gura respondant.)
"The Last Meeting of Melville and Hawthorne in the Berkshires," the Melville meeting at NEMLA in Philadelphia, March 27, 1993.
"New Episodes in Melville Biography," delivered at Penn State University, October 11, 1993, at the invitation of the Department of English, the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, the Dean of the College of the Liberal Arts, the Center for the History of the Book, and Penn State Press, in honor of the publication of the late Philip Young's The Private Melville.
"Tender is the Night and the Authority of the Author," delivered at the F. Scott Fitzgerald section at the Toronto MLA December 1993.
Talk on Herman Melville biography at Salisbury State University on 14 April 1994.
Talk on the research for my Melville biography, before the University of Delaware Library Assembly of Professional Staff on "The Scholar and the Library: Recent Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences," 22 April 1994.
Joint lecture with Maurice Sendak on Melville's Pierre at the Philadelphia Academy of Vocal Arts, sponsored by the Rosenbach Museum, 17 September 1995.
"War in the Original The Red Badge of Courage," delivered at the Conference on the 100th Anniversary of the publication of The Red Badge of Courage at the USAF Academy, Colorado Springs, 1 December 1995.
Lecture on Herman Melville in the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center "Biographers and Brunch" (lectures by literary biographers), 10 March 1996 in the Weill Art Gallery.
Lecture on "Writing Herman Melville: 1819-1851, 26 October 1996, at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto.
1996-1997: Short talks at book signings in Washington, D. C., Boston, Mystic Seaport, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore.
Fifteen-minute interview by Hermione Lee for BBC3--broadcast 27 November 1996
Hour-long interview on the Marc Steiner Show on WJHU Radio, Baltimore, 6 February 1997
Participation with Alfred Kazin and Paul Metcalf in a Symposium on Melville at the Barnes and Noble Union Square Bookstore, 25 February 1997.
Lecture on "Melville Scholarship: Searching for the Story," Salisbury State University, 5 March 1997.
Lecture, "Melville as Berkshire Author," at the Berkshire County Historical Society (Broadhall), 19 April 1997.
Lecture before the Library Associates of the University of Delaware, "Finding a Life in the Archives," 10 June 1997, 4:30 p.m.
Lecture at the New Bedford Whaling Museum 26 June 1997, "Melville and Moby-Dick: "Dollars Damn Me."
Lecture at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia 27 September 1997, "The Lost Poems (1860) and Melville's First Urge to Write an Epic Poem."
"Melville's Quest for an Aesthetic Credo in 1862," delivered at the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics meeting in San Francisco, 7 November 1997.
"Why Poetry?," delivered at the American Literature Association meeting in Cancun, 13 December 1997.
"Homospatial Imagery and Melville's Psychological Growth," delivered at an English Department meeting at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, 12 February 1998.
“The Sailors’ Snug Harbor as Paradise for the Melvilles,” delivered at the Sailors’ Snug Harbor in Staten Island, 16 July 1998.
31 October 2001 participation in Michael Krasny's KQED forum on the Sesquicentennial of Moby-Dick, by telephone in Morro Bay 10-11 a.m.
"Damned by Dollars," delivered at the Stanford English Department, Stanford, 1 November 2001.
"Moby-Dick and the Pacific Rim: Manifest Destiny and Literary Greatness," delivered 3 November 2001 on the Balclutha at a session of the Sesquicentennial of Moby-Dick celebration sponsored by the San Francisco Maritime National Park Association in collaboration with Stanford University and the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
Another Stanford talk 2002
"Damned by Dollars: Moby Dick and The Price of Genius," delivered at Claremont-McKenna, 24 March 2003.
"Moby-Dick as a Book of the Pacific Rim," delivered at Claremont-McKenna 25 March 2003.
"The Biographer Surprised: Discovering New Episodes in Melville's Life," delivered at the University of Texas, Permian Basin, Odessa, 28 March 2007
Participation in David Greetham's class on "Billy Budd" at CUNY, 25 April 2007.
"Melville and the Berkshires," delivered at the Melville Conference at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 28 April 2007
"The Biographer Surprised: Discovering New Episodes in Melville's Life," delivered at the Morro Bay Public Library, 16 May 2007.
"Pre-Revolutionary Patriots and Revolutionary Soldiers," delivered at the 15 November 2008 meeting of the San Luis Obispo chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.
"The Biographer Surprised: Discovering New Episodes in Melville's Life," delivered before the History Seminar at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo 20 November 2008.
“50 Years with The Confidence-Man,” Art Center College of Design, 4 October 2010.
A 3-hour seminar on Moby-Dick on 8 March 2011 at Otis Institute in Los Angeles at the invitation of Dennis Phillips and Paul Vangelisti.
PUBLICATIONS:
Directory of Melville Dissertations, eds. Tyrus Hillway and Hershel Parker (Evanston: The Melville Society, 1962), 63 pages.
"The Metaphysics of Indian hating," Nineteenth Century Fiction, 18 (September 1963), pp. 165 173. Reprinted in the Norton Critical Edition of The Confidence Man (New York: W. W. Norton, 1971), pp. 323 331. Reprinted in Modern Critical Views: Herman Melville, ed. Harold Bloom (New York and Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1986). Reprinted in the Norton Critical Edition of The Confidence Man (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006), pp. 493-501.
"Melville's Salesman Story," Studies in Short Fiction, 1 (Winter 1964), pp. 154 158.
"New Cross Lights on Melville in the 1870's," Emerson Society Quarterly, Number 39 (Second Quarter 1965), pp. 24 25.
"Gansevoort Melville's Role in the Campaign of 1844," The New York Historical Society Quarterly, 49 (April 1965), pp. 143 73.
"An Error in the Text of James' The American," American Literature, 37 (November 1965), pp. 316 18.
"Gansevoort Melville's 1846 London Journal," Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 69 (December 1965), pp. 632 654; 70 (January 1966), pp. 36 49; and 70 (February 1966), pp. 113 31.
Gansevoort Melville's 1846 London Journal and Letters from England, 1845 (New York: The New York Public Library, 1966), 74 pp. (An expanded version of the previous item.)
Review of Paul Brodtkorb, Jr., Ishmael's White World: A Phenomenological Reading of MOBY DICK, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 65 (July 1966), pp. 627 629.
The Recognition of Herman Melville (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, l967), pp. xviii and 364; reissued in paperback, 1970.
The Norton Critical Edition of MOBY DICK, eds. Harrison Hayford and Hershel Parker (New York: W. W. Norton, 1967), pp. xx and 728.
Typee, in The Writings of Herman Melville, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1968), pp. xiv and 374.
"Species of 'Soiled Fish,'" Center for Editions of American Authors Newsletter, 1 (March 1968), pp. 11 12.
Omoo, in The Writings of Herman Melville, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1968), pp. xv and 380.
Redburn, The Writings of Herman Melville, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1969), pp. xi and 380. (Parker is "the editor who coordinated the preparation of this volume.")
"Historical Note," in Redburn, pp. 315 352.
"Three Melville Reviews in the London Weekly Chronicle," American Literature, 41 (January 1970), pp. 584 589.
MOBY DICK as Doubloon: Essays and Extracts (1851 1970), eds. Hershel Parker and Harrison Hayford (New York : W. W. Norton, 1970), pp. xxi and 388.
Mardi, The Writings of Herman Melville, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1970), pp. xvii and 710. (Parker is "the editor who coordinated the preparation of this volume.")
"A Reexamination of Melville's Reviewers," American Literature, 42 (May 1970), pp. 226 232.
"Melville's Satire of Emerson and Thoreau: An Evaluation of the Evidence," American Transcendental Quarterly, No. 7, Part 2 (Summer 1970), pp. 61 67. Publisher's inadvertent omissions are given in "Melville's Satire of Emerson and Thoreau: Corrections," a page tipped into the hardbound copies of the issue, Studies in the Minor and Later Works of Melville, ed. Raymona E. Hull (Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1970), and in ATQ, No. 9, Part 2 (Winter 1971), p. 70.
White Jacket, The Writings of Herman Melville, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1970), pp. xiv and 499. (Parker is "the editor who coordinated the preparation of this volume.")
Review of Daniel B. Shea, Jr., Spiritual Autobiography in Early America, Eighteenth Century Studies, 3 (Summer 1970), pp. 573 574.
Review of John W. Reps, Town Planning in Frontier America, Eighteenth Century Studies, 4 (Autumn 1970), pp. 113 114.
The Norton Critical Edition of THE CONFIDENCE MAN (New York: W. W. Norton, 1971), pp. xvii and 376.
"Private Allegory and Public Allegory in Melville," Samuel Willis (pseud.) in The Confidence Man (New York: W. W. Norton, 1971), pp. 285 286.
"'The Story of China Aster': A Tentative Explication," in The Confidence Man (New York: W. W. Norton, 1971), pp. 353 356.
"In Defense of 'Copy Text Editing,'" Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 75 (October 1971), pp. 337 344.
"Melville and the Concept of 'Author's Final Intentions,'" Proof: The Yearbook of American Bibliographical and Textual Studies, 1 (l97l), pp. 156 168.
Pierre, The Writings of Herman Melville, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1971), pp. x and 435. (Parker is "the editor who coordinated the preparation of this volume.")
"Historical Note" in Pierre, by Leon Howard (pp. 365 379) and Hershel Parker (pp. 379 41O).
Shorter Works of Hawthorne and Melville (Columbus: Charles E. Merrill Co., 1972), pp. 424.
"Five Reviews not in MOBY DICK as Doubloon," English Language Notes, 9 (March 1972), pp. 182 185.
"Trafficking in Melville," Modern Language Quarterly, 33 (March 1972), pp. 54 66.
"'Benito Cereno' and Cloister Life: A Rescrutiny of a 'Source,'" Studies in Short Fiction, 9 (Summer 1972), pp. 221 232.
"Further Notices of Pierre," Extracts: An Occasional Newsletter of the Melville Society, No. 12 (October 1972), pp. 4 5.
Statement of Editorial Principles and Procedures: A Working Manual for Editing Nineteenth Century American Texts, Revised Edition (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1972), 25 pp. I contributed in a minor way to the original Statement published in 1967, and more substantially to the present edition, both in the revision of old sections and the writing of new passages. William M. Gibson was the major drafter of the first edition, G. Thomas Tanselle of the revision.
"Historical Introductions vs. Personal Interpretations," Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 76 (1972), p. 19.
"A Selected Edition of William Dean Howells: A Review Article," Proof: The Yearbook of American Bibliographical and Textual Studies, 2 (1972), pp. 319 332.
"New Evidence on the Reception of Pierre," Extracts: An Occasional Newsletter of the Melville Society, No. 13 (January 1973), p. 7.
"The Confidence Man and the Use of Evidence in Compositional Studies: A Rejoinder," Nineteenth Century Fiction, 28 (June 1973), pp. 119 129.
"Three Mark Twain Editions," Nineteenth Century Fiction, 28 (September 1973), pp. 225 229.
Review of J. A. Leo Lemay, Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland, Eighteenth Century Studies, 7 (Fall 1973), pp. 110 112.
"Regularizing Accidentals: The Latest Form of Infidelity," Proof: The Yearbook of American Bibliographical and Textual Studies, 3 (1973) pp 1 20.
"Practical Editions: Herman Melville's Moby Dick," Proof: The Yearbook of American Bibliographical and Textual Studies, 3 (1973), pp. 371 378.
"'Quite an Original!'" Extracts: An Occasional Newsletter of the Melville Society, No. 16 (November 1973), pp. 9 10.
"Melville," Chapter 3 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1972, ed. J. Albert Robbins (Durham: Duke University Press, 1974), pp. 40 58.
"The CEAA: An Interim Assessment," Hershel Parker with Bruce Bebb, Publications of the Bibliographical Society of America, 68 (Second Quarter 1974), pp. 129 148.
"Dead Letters and Melville's 'Bartleby,'" Resources for American Literary Study, 4 (Spring 1974), pp. 90 99.
Review of Everett Emerson, ed., Major Writers of Early American Literature, Eighteenth Century Studies, 7 (Summer 1974), pp. 514 516.
"What Quentin Saw 'Out There,'" Mississippi Quarterly, 27 (Summer 1974), pp. 323 326. Reprinted, Arthur F. Kinney, ed., Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Sutpen Family, (New York: G. K. Hall, 1996), pp. 275-278.
"Sober Second Thoughts: Fitzgerald's 'Final Version' of Tender is the Night," Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker, Proof: The Yearbook of American Bibliographical and Textual Studies, 4 (1975), pp. 129 152.
"Melville," Chapter 4 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1973 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1975), pp. 65 84.
"The Aesthetics of Editorial Apparatuses," Editorial Quarterly 1 (First Quarter 1975), pp. 4 8.
"Being Professional in Working on Moby Dick," College Literature, 2 (Fall 1975) pp. 192 197.
"Desideratum," The Direction Line: A Newsletter for Bibliographers and Textual Critics, No. 1 (Autumn 1975), p. 20.
"Freehafer on Greg and the CEAA: Secure Footing and 'Substantial Shortfalls,'" Bruce Bebb and Hershel Parker, Studies in the Novel, 7 (Fall 1975), pp. 391 394.
"Evidences for 'Late Insertions' in Melville's Works," Studies in the Novel, 7 (Fall 1975), pp. 407 424.
Checklist of Melville Reviews, Steven Mailloux and Hershel Parker (Los Angeles: The Melville Society, 1975), pp. ix and 90.
Review of Joseph Flibbert, Melville and the Art of Burlesque, Yearbook of English Studies (1976), pp. 317 318.
Review of the Bruccoli Clark The Red Badge of Courage: A Facsimile Edition of the Manuscript, ed. Fredson Bowers, and the University Press of Virginia The Red Badge of Courage, ed. Fredson Bowers, Nineteenth Century Fiction, 30 (March 1976), pp. 558 562.
"Melville," Chapter 4 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1974 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1976), pp. 43 59.
"Why Pierre Went Wrong," Studies in the Novel, 8 (Spring 1976), pp. 7 23.
Review of R. Bruce Bickley, Jr., The Method of Melville's Short Fiction, Modern Language Quarterly 37 (September 1976), pp. 295 298.
Review of G. M. Sweeney, Melville's Use Of Classical Mythology, Yearbook of English Studies (1977), pp. 201 202.
"Contract: Pierre, by Herman Melville," Proof: The Yearbook of American Bibliographical and Textual Studies, 5 (1977), pp. 27 44.
"Melville," Chapter 4 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1975 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1977), pp. 59 82.
"Conjectural Emendations: An Illustration from the Topography of Pierre's Mind," Literary Research Newsletter, 3 (Spring 1978), pp. 62 66.
Guest Editor, Special Number on Stephen Crane, Studies in the Novel, 10 (Spring 1978), and author of the preface, pp. 6 7.
"Maggie's 'Last Night': Authorial Design and Editorial Patching," Hershel Parker and Brian Higgins, Studies in the Novel, 10 (Spring 1978), pp. 64 75. Reprinted in the Norton Critical Edition of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (New York: W. W. Norton, 1979), pp. 234 45.
"Melville," Chapter 4 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1976 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1978), pp. 47 59.
"Exigencies of Composition and Publication: Billy Budd, Sailor and Pudd'nhead Wilson," Hershel Parker and Henry Binder, Nineteenth Century Fiction, 33 (June 1978), pp. 131 143. The issue was reprinted as Narrative Endings (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979).
"Aesthetic Implications of Authorial Excisions: Examples from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Stephen Crane," in Editing Nineteenth Century Fiction, ed. Jane Millgate (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978), pp. 99 119.
"The Flawed Grandeur of Melville's Pierre," Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker, in New Perspectives on Melville, ed. Faith Pullin (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1978), pp. 162 196. (1000 copies were distributed in the United States with a Kent State University Press title page and a 1979 publication date.) Reprinted, slightly revised, in Critical Essays on Herman Melville's "Pierre" (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983), pp. 240 266). Reprinted again, in part, in Herman Melville: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Myra Jehlen in the New Century Views series (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1994), 126-138.
Review of Edgar A. Dryden, Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Poetics of Enchantment, Studies in American Fiction, 6 (Autumn 1978), pp. 239 240.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 2 vols. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1979), editor of "American Literature 1820 1865," vol. 1.
Review of the Ohio State University Press editions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The American Claimant Manuscripts and The Elixir of Life Manuscripts, Nineteenth Century Fiction, 33 (March 1979), pp. 489 492.
"Melville," Chapter 4 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1977 (Durham: Duke University Press 1979), pp. 49 63.
"Tromping through Fairyland: Two Books on Melville's Tales," a review of Marvin Fisher, Going Under: Melville's Short Fiction and the American 1850s and William B. Dillingham, Melville's Short Fiction, 1853 1856, in Review, 1 (1979), pp. 183 193.
"The 'Sequel' in 'Bartleby,'" in Bartleby the Inscrutable, ed. M. Thomas Inge (Hamden, Conn: Archon Books, 1979), pp. 159 165.
Review of Edward F. Edinger, Melville's "Moby Dick": A Jungian Commentary, Studies in the Novel, 11 (Summer 1979), pp. 242 244.
"A Modest Proposal," Melville Society Extracts, No. 40 (November 1979), pp. 6 7.
Series editor and author of the "Foreword" to Lea Bertani Vozar Newman's A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1979), p. ix.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Edition (New York: W. W. Norton, 1980). (A one volume selection from the two volume 1979 edition.)
"Melville," Chapter 9 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1978 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1980), pp. 43 58.
Review of Rowland Sherrill, The Prophetic Melville: Experience, Transcendence, and Tragedy, Studies in American Fiction, 8 (Autumn 1980), pp. 248 249
Review of the Kent State University Press edition of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, The Eighteenth Century: A Critical Bibliography, n.s. 3 (1981), pp. 177 179.
The Endless, Winding Way in Melville: New Charts by Kring and Carey, eds. Donald Yannella and Hershel Parker (Glassboro: The Melville Society, 1981), pp. vi and 53.
"The Dates of Stephen Crane's Letters to Amy Leslie," PBSA, 75 (First Quarter, 1981), pp. 82 86.
"The Chaotic Legacy of the New Criticism and the Fair Augury of the New Scholarship," Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker, in Ruined Eden of the Present: Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe (Critical Essays in Honor of Darrel Abel), eds. G. R. Thompson and Virgil L. Lokke (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1981), pp. 27 45.
"Melville," Chapter 4 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1979 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1981), pp. 47 59.
Review of the Kent State University Press edition of Charles Brockden Brown's Arthur Mervyn, Nineteenth Century Fiction, 36 (September 1981), pp. 196 198.
Review of the State University of New York Press edition of James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers and The Pathfinder, Nineteenth Century Fiction, 36 (September 1981), pp. 199 201.
"Melville and the Berkshires: Emotion Laden Terrain, 'Reckless, Sky Assaulting Mood,' and Encroaching Wordsworthianism," in American Literature: The New England Heritage, eds. James Nagel and Richard Astro (New York: Garland, 1981), pp. 65 80.
"The 'New Scholarship': Textual Evidence and Its Implications for Criticism, Literary Theory, and Aesthetics," Studies in American Fiction, 9 (Autumn 1981), pp. 18l 97.
"The Lowdown on Pudd'nhead Wilson: Jack Leg Novelist, Unreadable Text, Sense Making Critics, and Basic Issues in Aesthetics," Resources for American Literary Study, 11 (Autumn l98l), pp. 215 40.
Review of Sister Carrie in the Pennsylvania Edition of Theodore Dreiser, Resources for American Literary Study, 11 (Autumn 1981), pp. 332 36.
"Norman Mailer's Revision of the Esquire Version of An American Dream and the Aesthetic Problem of 'Built in Intentionality,'" Bulletin of Research in the Humanities, 84 (Winter 1981), pp. 405 30. [Published February 1983]
Review of Andrew Gordon, An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer, and of Robert J. Begiebing, Acts of Regeneration: Allegory and Archetype in the Works of Norman Mailer, Studies in American Fiction, 10 (Spring l982), pp. 121 24.
"Melville," Chapter 4 in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1980 (Durham: Duke University Press, l982), pp. 57 66.
Israel Potter, The Writings of Herman Melville, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, l982), pp. x and 402.
Essay review on "The Mark Twain Project,"Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 8l (October 1982), pp. 596 604.
Typee, Omoo, Mardi (New York: Library of America, 1982), reprint of the Northwestern-Newberry texts, with notes by G. Thomas Tanselle.
"The Determinacy of the Creative Process and the 'Authority' of the Author's Textual Decisions," College Literature, 10 (Spring 1983), pp. 99 125.
Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick (New York: Library of America, 1983), reprint of the Northwestern-Newberry texts, with notes by G. Thomas Tanselle.
"Lost Authority: Non sense, Skewed Meanings, and Intentionless Meanings," Critical Inquiry, 9 (June 1983), pp. 767 74. Reprinted in W. J. T. Mitchell, ed., Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985), pp. 72 79.
Critical Essays on Herman Melville's PIERRE, eds. Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983), x and 271.
"Introduction" to Critical Essays on Herman Melville's PIERRE, Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker, pp. 1 27, a revision and expansion, by Higgins and Parker, of two of Parker's earlier essays, "Why Pierre Went Wrong" (1976) and "Contract: Pierre, by Herman Melville" (1977).
The Confidence Man, The Writings of Herman Melville, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1984).
"Historical Note" in The Confidence Man, by Watson Branch, Harrison Hayford, and Hershel Parker, with Alma MacDougall, pp. 253 357.
"Henry James 'In the Wood': Sequence and Significances of his Literary Labors, 1905 1907," Nineteenth Century Fiction, 38 (March 1984), pp. 492 513. (Special issue honoring Blake Nevius.)
Review of Eugene F. Irey, A Concordance to Herman Melville's MOBY DICK, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 7 (Numbers l and 2, 1983), pp. 54 57.
Review of James Duban, Melville's Major Fiction Politics, Theology, and Imagination, Nineteenth Century Fiction, 39 (December 1984), pp. 358 361.
Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literary Authority in American Fiction (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1984), pp. xix and 249.
"Cheap Thrills: Lost 'Authority' and Adventitious Aesthetic Frissons," in American Critics at Work: Examinations of Contemporary Literary Theories, ed. Victor A. Kramer (Troy: Whitston Publishing Co., 1984), pp. 316 333.
Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence-Man, Uncollected Prose, Billy Budd, Sailor (New York: Library of America, 1984), reprint of the Northwestern-Newberry texts, with notes by Harrison Hayford.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 2nd Edition (New York: W. W. Norton, 1985), ed. of the 1820 1865 section in Volume One. (Three authors are added; selections of most other authors are somewhat changed.)
"The Germ Theory of The Scarlet Letter", The Hawthorne Society Newsletter, 11 (Spring 1985), pp. 11 13.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Second Edition Shorter (New York: W. W. Norton, 1986), ed. of the 1820 1865 section. (This is a new selection from the material in the 1985 2nd Edition edition.)
"The Character of Vine in Melville's Clarel," University of New Haven Essays in Arts and Sciences, 15 (June 1986), pp. 91 113.
"Reading Pierre," Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker, in A Companion to Melville Studies, ed. John Bryant (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986), pp. 211 239.
"Getting Used to the 'Original Form' of The Red Badge of Courage," in New Essays on "The Red Badge of Courage", ed. Lee Clark Mitchell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 25 47.
The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville (Evanston: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1987). (I contributed to this volume only in my advisory capacity as Associate General Editor of the entire edition.)
"'The Text Itself' Whatever That Is," Text: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, 3 (New York: AMS Press, 1987), pp. 47-54.
Essay-review, "The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper," University of Mississippi Studies in English, n.s. 5 (1984-1987), pp. 110-119.
Review of A Companion to Melville Studies, ed. John Bryant, Nineteenth-Century Literature, 42 (March 1988), pp. 508-512.
Moby-Dick, The Writings of Herman Melville (Evanston: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1988). For this volume the three editors, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle, also wrote the "Historical Note" (my part is monograph length--135 pages).
"Glimpses of the Henry James Who Earned His Living," Review, 10 (1988), pp. 159-165.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 3rd Edition (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), two volumes, ed. of the 1820 1865 section in Volume One. (For this edition there are relatively minor additions or subtractions; for one new Thoreau selection, the essay on Carlyle, I did a good deal of research because no one had ever annotated it. I also brought the bibliographies up-to-date.)
CHECK--1988-1989?
Review of Larry Edward Wegener, A Concordance to Herman Melville's "Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities," Resources for American Literary Study, 16 (1986-1989), pp. 109-113.
Review of Mara Kalnins's edition of D. H. Lawrence, Aaron's Rod (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), D. H. Lawrence Review, 20 (Fall 1988), pp. 339-341.
Journals, The Writings of Herman Melville, (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1989), ix and 683. For this volume, edited by Howard C. Horsford, Lynn Horth, and Harrison Hayford, I served only in the capacity of Associate General Editor of the edition, making some confirmatory transcriptions from manuscripts, supplying biographical information for some of the notes, supplying private photographs of a wax scene Melville saw in Florence, and drafting two or three discussion notes.
"The New Melville Log," in "Announcements," American Literature, 61 (October 1989), p. 446.
"Very Loose Fish," Melville Society Extracts, 75 (November 1988 [published November 1989]), pp. 14-15, a short version of the progress report on The New Melville Log in Modern Language Studies (Winter 1990).
"Billy Budd, Foretopman and the Dynamics of Canonization," College Literature, 17 (Winter 1990), pp. 21-32 (Bernard Oldsey's "Farewell Issue").
"Herman Melville's The Isle of the Cross: A Survey and a Chronology," American Literature, 62 (March 1990), pp. 1-16.
"The New Melville Log: A Progress Report and an Appeal," Modern Language Studies, 20 (Winter 1990), pp. 53-66.
"Melville to Duyckinck: A New Letter," Melville Society Extracts, 81 (May 1990), p. 9.
Review of David S. Reynolds's Beneath the American Renaissance, Modern Language Quarterly, 49 (September 1988 [published September 1990]), pp. 298-302.
"A Position Paper on Authorial Intention and the Socialization of Texts," Documentary Editing, 12 (September 1990), pp. 62-65. (This is part of an exchange of views; Jerome J. McGann's "The Socialization of Texts" appears on 56-61 in the same issue.)
"Textual Criticism and Hemingway," lead essay in Hemingway: Essays of Reassessment, edited by Frank Scafella, a collection consisting mainly of talks given at the Third International Conference held in Schruns, Austria, in June 1988 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 17-31.
Reading "Billy Budd" (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1990), pp. ix and 190. Billy Budd: Lesen & Verstehen (Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf University Press, 2010), translated by Ernst A. Chantelau is a German edition of this book.
Clarel, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University and the Newberry Library, 1991); in addition to co-editing this volume I contributed a 35-page "Historical Supplement" to Walter E. Bezanson's "Historical and Critical Essay" (slightly revised from its publication as the Introduction to the Hendricks House edition of Clarel, 1960).
"Herman Melville," American History Illustrated, 26 (September-October 1991), pp. 28-47; cover story (lead article) in commemoration of the centennial of Melville's death.
"The Price of Diversity: A Minority Report on the American Literary Canon," College Literature, 18 (October, 1991), pp. 15-29.
"The Reviewing of Scholarly Editions," Editors' Notes, 10 (Fall 1991), 16-24.
Checklist of Melville Reviews, by Kevin J. Hayes and Hershel Parker, revised from the 1975 Checklist by Steven Mailloux and Hershel Parker (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1991).
Critical Essays on Herman Melville's MOBY-DICK, eds. Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker (New York: G. K. Hall, 1992), xiii and 570. For this collection Higgins and I wrote the long introduction, pp. 1-36, and I wrote a separate piece for a "New Essays" section at the end of the volume, to which John Wenke and David S. Reynolds also contributed.
"Moby-Dick and Domesticity," pp. 545-562, in Critical Essays on Herman Melville's MOBY-DICK, eds. Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker (New York: G. K. Hall, 1992), pp. 545-562.
"Letter to the Editor," Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography (1992), New Series 6, nos. 3 & 4, 216-217, response to an earlier letter from Fredson Bowers. (Published October 1994 although dated 1992.)
The Correspondence of Herman Melville, in The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1993), re-edited from the 1960 Merrell R. Davis and William H. Gilman edition of the Letters; for this volume Harrison Hayford was General Editor, I was Associate General Editor, and G. Thomas Tanselle was Bibliographical Editor. We all three contributed very substantially to this volume.
"New Melville Documents and Sub-Intentioned Death," in Suicidology: Essays in Honor of Edwin S. Shneidman, edited by A. Leenaars (Northvale, N. J.: Jason Aronson Inc., 1993), 289-298.
"Sarah Morewood's Last Drive, As Told in Caroline S. Whitmarsh's 'A Representative Woman,'" Hershel Parker with Edward Daunais, Melville Society Extracts, 93 (June 1993), pp. 1-4.
"Deconstructing The Art of the Novel and Liberating James's Prefaces," Henry James Review, 14 (Fall, 1993), 284-307.
"Herman Melville as Sex Symbol," in a collection edited by Professor Philippe Jaworski for a special Melville issue of Profils américains, No. 5 (1993), pp. 7-23.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 4th Edition (1994). For this edition I wrote a wholly new several-page author headnote for Emily Dickinson and made a new and larger selection of her poetry and wrote new annotations. I edited and included for the first time in any anthology Whitman's first group of homosexual poems, "Live Oak, with Moss," treating it frankly as a gay manifesto. I also updated the bibliographies for the period and made other comparatively minor changes.
Reprinting of "The Flawed Grandeur of Melville's Pierre," Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker, in Herman Melville: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Myra Jehlen in the New Century Views series (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1994), 126-138.
"The Lost Lathers Collections," by Eric Collum and Hershel Parker, Melville Society Extracts, 99 (December 1994), 26-28.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Fourth Edition (New York: W. W. Norton, 1995). (A one volume selection from the two volume 1994 edition.)
"Biography and Responsible Uses of the Imagination: Three Episodes from Melville's Homecoming in 1844," Resources for American Literary Study, 21 (1995), 16-42.
Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews, eds. Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker, or the Cambridge University series American Critical Archives (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), xxiv and 556 ("Introduction" ix-xxiv).
"Three New Melville Letters: Procrastination and Passports," Steven Olsen-Smith and Hershel Parker, Melville Society Extracts, No. 102 (September 1995), pp. 8-12.
Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, by Herman Melville, edited by Hershel Parker, pictures by Maurice Sendak (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), "Introduction" xi-xlvi, text 449 (with 30 illustrations).
"The Virginia Edition of Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Mirror for Textual Scholars," by Hershel Parker and Brian Higgins, Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 19 (Third Quarter, 1995), 131-166.
"The Auteur-Author Paradox: How Critics of the Cinema and the Novel Talk about Flawed or even 'Mutilated' Texts," Studies in the Novel, Vol. 27 (Fall, 1995), 413-426, in a special issue edited by Alexander Pettit on Editing Novels and Novelists, Now.
"What Quentin Saw 'Out There,'" in Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Sutpen Family, ed. Arthur F. Kinney (New York: G. K. Hall, 1996), pp. 275-278; reprinted from Mississippi Quarterly, 27 (Summer 1974), pp. 323 326.
"A Tribute to Harris's Sheriff Doltin Sequence," in Sut Lovingood's Nat'ral Born Yarnspinner: Essays on George Washington Harris, eds. James E. Caron and M. Thomas Inge (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996), 217-227.
Herman Melville: 1819-1851 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). 941 pages, illus. Winner in the category "Literature and Language" in the Association of American Publishers' Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Awards Competition for 1996. One of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography, 1997.
"The Real 'Live Oak, with Moss': Straight Talk about Whitman's 'Gay Manifesto,'" Nineteenth-Century Literature, 51 (September 1996), pp. 145-160
"Chronologie," in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, No. 433, Herman Melville, Oeuvres, 1 ("Taïpi," "Omou," "Mardi"), ed. Philippe Jaworski, with Michel Imbert, Dominique Marçais, Mark Niemeyer, Hershel Parker, and Joseph Urbas (Paris: Gallimard, 1997), xxxv-liv.
"'Live Oak, with Moss' and 'Calamus': Textual Inhibitions in Whitman Criticism," Steven Olsen-Smith and Hershel Parker, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 14 (Spring 1997), pp. 153-165.
"Biographers on Biography: A Panel Discussion (Stanton Garner, Lynn Horth, Hershel Parker, Robert Ryan, and Donald Yannella)," in Melville's Evermoving Dawn: Centennial Essays ed. John Bryant and Robert Milder (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997), pp. 225-259.
"The Lost Poems (1860) and Melville's First Urge to Write an Epic Poem," in Melville's Evermoving Dawn: Centennial Essays ed. John Bryant and Robert Milder (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997), pp. 260-275.
"An Exchange between Alan Helms and Hershel Parker," Nineteenth-Century Literature, 52 (December 1997), 415-416.
"The Melville House at 104 East 26th Street," Harvard Library Bulletin, n.s. 8 (Winter, 1997), 37-45.
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 5th Edition (1998). This is the most thoroughly revised edition yet. For it I wrote new author headnotes and selection headnotes and footnotes for Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Caroline Stansbury Kirkland, Fanny Fern, Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Prescott Spofford. I wrote new footnotes for additional selections by Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and other authors already represented in earlier editions of NAAL. I also updated the bibliographies for the period and made many other changes.
"Herman Melville," in American National Biography, Vol. 15 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999 [check date), pp. 277-283.
"Ahab's Wife Doesn't Belong on Same Shelf as Moby-Dick," San Francisco Chronicle (24 October 1999), 10.
The Norton Critical Edition of MOBY DICK, Second Edition, eds. Hershel Parker and Harrison Hayford (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), pp. xvii and 726.
"Melville's Reading and Moby-Dick: An Overview and a Bibliography," in The Norton Critical Edition of MOBY DICK, Second Edition (2001), 431-437.
"Before Moby-Dick: International Controversy over Melville," in The Norton Critical Edition of MOBY-DICK, Second Edition (2001), 465-470.
"Damned by Dollars: Moby-Dick and the Price of Genius," in The Norton Critical Edition of MOBY-DICK, Second Edition (2001), 713-726. Revised and reprinted in Living with a Writer, ed. Dale Salwak (London and New York: Palgrave/Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 2004), 202-222. [first copy received 30 August 2004]
"Foreword," in the Sesquicentennial issue of the Northwestern-Newberry Moby-Dick (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2001), pp. xiii-xvi.
"Melville and Hawthorne in the Berkshires," in Aspects of Melville, ed. David Scribner (Pittsfield: Berkshire County Historical Society at Arrowhead, 2001), 21-27.
"The Masterpiece That Ended a Career: Melville's Moby-Dick," Sea Letter 61 (Winter 2001), 10-13.
Herman Melville: A Biography, 1851-1891 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002). Xvii and 997. Winner in "Biography and Autobiography," Association of American Publishers' Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division Annual Award; listed as an "Outstanding Academic Title" in the January 2004 issue of Choice Magazine.
Norton Anthology of American Literature, 6th Edition (2002). Contains only a few new authors with new headnotes but a greatly rewritten general introduction.
Robin Grey and Douglas Robillard in consultation with Hershel Parker, "Melville's Milton: The Marginalia in The Poetical Works of John Milton: A Transcription of Melville's Annotation in His Copy of Milton," Leviathan, 4 (March and October 2002), 117-204. Reprinted in Melville and Milton: An Edition and Analysis of Melville's Annotations on Milton, ed. Robin Grey (Pittsburgh: DuQuesne University Press, 2004), 115-203.
"Foreword," in Harrison Hayford, Melville's Prisoners (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2003), vii-xi.
"What Hawthorne Meant to Melville," Harrison Hayford, introduced by Hershel Parker, Hawthorne Revisited: Honoring the Bicentennial of the Author's Birth, eds. Gordon Hyatt and David Scribner (Lenox: Lenox Library Association, 2004), 75-82.
"Chronologie," in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, No. 433, Herman Melville, Oeuvres, 2 ("Redburn" and "Vareuse-Blanche"), ed. Philippe Jaworski, with Michel Imbert, Hershel Parker, and Joseph Urbas (Paris: Gallimard, 2004), xiii-xviii. (A new chronology for 1849-1850, the period of this volume.)
“Damned by Dollars,” revised, in Living with a Writer, Dale Salwak, ed. (Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2004), 202-222.
With Mark Niemeyer, the Second Norton Critical Edition of The Confidence-Man (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006). This contains reprinted essays and (besides the Preface) three substantial new essays by Parker: "The Confidence Man's Masquerade," "Delusions of a 'Terrestrial Paradise,'" and "The Politics of Allegorizing Indian Hating."
"Chronologie," in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, No. 433, Herman Melville, Oeuvres, 3 ("Moby-Dick; Pierre ou les Ambiguités"]), ed. Philippe Jaworski, with Michel Imbert, Hershel Parker, and Joseph Urbas (Paris: Gallimard, 2006), xxxiii-xl. (A new chronology for 1850-1853, the period of this volume.)
Reading Melville's "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities", by Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. [Actually out April 2007.]
"The Isle of the Cross and Poems: Lost Melville Books and the Indefinite Afterlife of Error," Nineteenth-Century Literature 62 (June 2007), 29-47.
Melville: The Making of the Poet (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2008); available late November 2007 but dated 2008.
"James B. Meriwether: An Encounter," Mississippi Quarterly, 59:3-4 (Summer-Fall 2006), 391-393. [An excerpt from Ornery People, written before Meriwether's death on 18 March 2007, my pdf received 18 March 2008.]
"Foreword," in Herman Melville's Clarel (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2008), xiii-xxvii. (copies available August 2008).
Published Poems, Vol. 11 in The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle, and Alma MacDougall Reising (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2009); my paperback copy received 4 June 2009.
"Chronologie," in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Herman Melville, Oeuvres, 4 ("Bartleby le scribe; Billy Budd, marin; et autres romans), ed. Philippe Jaworski, with David Lapoujade and Hershel Parker (Paris: Gallimard, 201-), xxi-xlii. (A new chronology for 1852-1891, the period of this volume.) Received 4 March 2010.
"The 'New Scholarship': Textual Evidence and Its Implications for Criticism, Literary Theory, and Aesthetics," Studies in American Fiction, 9 (Autumn 1981), pp. 18l 97. Reprinted in Ecdotica 6 (University of Bologna, 2009), in Anglo-American Scholarly Editing, 1980-2005 (Bulogna: University of Bulogna, 2010), 30-46. [copy received 5 June 2010]
Billy Budd: Lesen & Verstehen (Düsselforf: Düsseldorf University Press, 2010), translated by Ernst A. Chantelau. This is a German edition of my Reading “Billy Budd” (1990).
“The Talented Ripley Hitchcock,” American Literary Realism, 43 (Winter 2011), pp. 175-182. [Available on Muse 6 January 2011, paper copy soon afterwards]
The Powell Papers (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2011), a collection of documents on an international crook who precipitated a literary scandal (involving Charles Dickens, Washington Irving and Herman Melville).
From Northwestern University Press Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative, not a condensation of the two-volume edition but a different kind of work, first part autobiographical of me as biographer, second part about the hostility of critics to biographical scholarship, third part a series of chapters demonstrating the work of biography, and endnotes relating problems in Melville biography to problems encountered by many other biographers, primarily British.
In progress: The three-volume third edition of The New Melville Log, Hershel Parker and Jay Leyda (New York: Gordian Press) and perhaps an electronic version of the entire 9,000 page archive. This functions as my private archive of archives. The owner of Gordian Press has come to life early in 2009 and we are at work on a 3-volume print edition. On 24 June 2010 Robert Sandberg agreed to do the coding and layout; in April 2011 I should have given him all the first pass of the first volume, 1819-June 1849.
Next project, "Things Incomplete and Purposes Betrayed" (working title, from Wordsworth)--the Historical Note for BILLY BUDD, SAILOR and Other Uncompleted Writings. This has been in progress since June 2009--the story of Melville's working life after 1860.
Ultimate project: Ornery People, stories about my American ancestors whom I had thought, prior to 2002, to have left almost no written record.
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