27 September 2019
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 National 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 Hawkins award, 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 Hawkins award, 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
Nantucket
Historical Association Research Fellow Fall/Winter 2015
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.
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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.
Talk
at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, in 23 February 2012 on “Damned
by Dollars: Melville and the Price of Genius.”
Talk
at the “Coffee Cabinet” of the Retired Active Men’s Group in San Luis Obispo 28
February 2013 on Melville biography.
Talk
before Planned Parenthood on Melville June 30, 2013, in Morro Bay at a private
house.
“Being
a Biographer in the Era of Theory,” for the Morro Bay ECLECTIA Lectures,
September 26, 2013, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church. [Actually, a revised “Damned
by Dollars,” and then discussion of being a biographer in the era of theory.]
“Glimpses—Who
the Joads Really Were,” the Morro Bay Rotary Club, 27 February 2018.
“My
Life and Work,” The Retired Active Men’s meeting, Highway 41, 9 October 2018.
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.
Editor
and contributor, “Harrison Hayford (1916-2001): His Students Recollect,” Leviathan 5.11 (March 2003), 71-85.
"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. [which is publisher?]
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.
“An
Attempt to Grapple with a Tough Book,” scholarly review of Sally Bushell, Text as Process: Creative Composition in
Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Dickinson (Charlottesville: University of
Virginia Press, 2009), posted in Amazon, 2 February 2010.
"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, 2010),
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: A Confidence Man Amok Among the Anglo-American Literati (Evanston: Northwestern
University Press, 2011), xiv, 345. Copy received 29 June 2011.
“Chronologie,”
pp. 603-618, a condensed 1810-1891 version, in the Folio Classique edition of Melville’s Mardi, ed. Dominique Marçais, Mark Niemeyer, Joseph Urbas, préface
nouvelle de Philippe Jaworski, Chronologie de Hershel Parker, traduction de
Rose Celli, revue par Philippe Jaworski (Paris: Gallimard, 2011) Received 29
June 2011.
“The
Unemployable Herman Melville: ‘Nothing Else To Do” But Sign on a Whaleship,” Historic Nantucket 62.2 (Spring 2012),
4-10.
“Walter
E. Bezanson: A Memorial,” Leviathan 37
(Spring 2012), 37-42.
Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2012).
“Melville
as ‘The Modern Boccaccio’: The Fascinations of Fayaway,” introduction to Typee (Los Angeles: A Barnacle Book /
Rare Bird Books, 2013), xv-xxix.
“The
Tryon County Patriots of 1775 and their ‘Association,’” the webzine Journal of the American Revolution (14 August
2014), 11 pages. Reprinted in June 2015 in Journal
of the American Revolution: Annual Volume 2015, eds. Todd Andrik, Don N.
Hagist, Hugh T. Harrington (Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2015), 63-72.
Reprinted in an expanded version in the Gaston-Lincoln Genealogical Society’s Footprints in Time (December 2014),
154-174.
“Fanning
Outfoxes Marion,” Journal of the American
Revolution (8 October 2014), 9 pages. Reprinted in June 2015 in Journal of the American Revolution: Annual
Volume 2015, eds. Todd Andrik, Don N. Hagist, Hugh T. Harrington (Yardley,
PA: Westholme Publishing, 2015), 350-356.
“John
Butler’s ‘Want of Good Generalship,’” Journal
of the American Revolution (22 January 2015), 10 pages.
“Fanning’s
Bloody Sabbath as Traced by Alexander Gray,” Journal of the American Revolution (4 May 2015), 12 pages.
“The
Memorial of David Fanning,” Southern
Campaigns of the American Revolution (August 2015), 1-7.
“Absolving
David Fanning—From Dreck to Rumph,” Journal
of the American Revolution (24 November 2015), 10 pages.
“North
Carolina Patriot Women Who Talked Back to the Tories,” Journal of the American Revolution (11 January 2017), 11 pages. Reprinted
in Journal of the American Revolution,
Annual Volume 2018 (Yardley: Westholme, 2018), 245-251. Copy received 24 May
2018.
“A
‘Heavenly Harvest’ of Vulnerable Women in North Carolina: Tory Troops as Sexual
Predators,” Journal of the American
Revolution (27 February 2017), 11 pages.
“The
‘Battle at McIntire’s Farm’: Joseph Graham as Historian of the Revolution,” Journal of the American Revolution (11
May 2017), 13 pages.
“Avenging
Francis Bradley, the Mecklenburg Marksman: A Family Story,” Journal of the American Revolution (26
June 2017), 13 pages.
The final volume in the 15-volume
Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville, BILLY
BUDD, SAILOR and Other Uncompleted Writings. The
volume is a team effort, edited by Hayford, Tanselle, Sandberg, and MacDougall.
I am General Editor of the volume and author of the “Historical Note,” the
story of Melville's working life after 1860, pp. 297-365. My first copy came 27
October 2017.
Moby-Dick,
the third edition of the Norton Critical Edition of Moby-Dick, greatly revised from the 1967 and 2001 editions,
containing several pieces (some new) by me.
My first copy came 15 November 2017.
"Make-or-Break
Reviews," in Herman Melville in
Context, ed. Kevin Hayes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018),
285-295. My copies came 7 February 2018.
On 7
April 2018, news that the French Ministry of Education has put the Second
Norton Critical Edition of The
Confidence-Man, eds. Hershel Parker and Mark Niemeyer, on the official
program for the highly competitive external agrégation examination for 2019 and
2020. On 15 April 2018, more good news, the announcement that our edition of The Confidence-Man will also be on the
program for the internal examination.
Moby-Dick ou le Cachalot,
ed. Philippe Jaworski (Paris: Gallimard, 2018), with my "Herman Melville:
Vie et Oeuvre, 1819-1891," 35-92. Published on 19 April 2018; my copy
arrived 20 April 2018. So my chronology is in the standard French edition of Moby-Dick.
Review of
Richard B. McCaslin, The Great Hanging at
Gainesville, 1862 (Denton: Texas State Historical Association, 2012), in
Amazon, 7 November 2018 with additions over the next days—a contribution to
scholarship which announces my discoveries of unknown documents from 1863 and
1894, the earlier one a history of the Great Hangings that ought to have been
in this book.
“A
Mandate Fulfilled (1965-2017): The
Writings of Herman Melville,” Leviathan,
21.2 (June 2019), 14-20.
"A Forgotten Early Account of the Great
Hanging at Gainesville, Texas: P’s Letter to the Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph,
August 1863." Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 123.1 (July 2019), 88-92.
Editor, Herman Melville: Complete Poems (New
York: Library of America, 2019). My copies received August 8, 2019.
“Review
of Sheldon Russell’s A Forgotten Evil (Malvern,
PA: Cynren Press, 2019), some of it quoted as a blurb on the back cover.
“’Goddamn
Okies”: Loss and Retrieval of Historical Memory,” posted on fragmentsfromawritingdesk, 26 September
2019, as a serious copyrighted article, 12 pages.
Current
project: Ornery People: Who the
Depression Okies Were. This will be a unique genealogical book because I
bring to it all I have learned about historical research in a scholarly career
spanning more than half a century. The idea behind it is that almost anyone
whose family had been in eastern Oklahoma since the mid-19th century
can now, starting with the Internet, retrieve lost family stories and establish
new historical memories in the context of successive episodes of American
history.
In
progress: The three-volume third edition of The
New Melville Log, Hershel Parker and Jay Leyda, perhaps an electronic
version of the entire 9,000 page archive. Until other projects are completed
this functions as my private archive of archives, but I am still adding to the Log.
to the Boardwalk. I used to run there and farther on very different terrain. All the old paths are gone, dunes are all changed.
