Hershel Parker
American professor of English and literature
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Hershel Parker is an American professor of English and literature, noted for his research into the works of Herman Melville. Parker is the H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware. He is co-editor with Harrison Hayford of the Norton Critical Edition of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick , and the General Editor of the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville, which, with the publication of volume 13, "Billy Budd, Sailor" and Other Uncompleted Writings, is now complete in fifteen volumes. Parker is the author of a two-volume biography of Herman Melville published by Johns Hopkins University Press . Parker also edited the first ever one-volume edition of Melville's complete poetry, Herman Melville: Complete Poems, published by the Library of America in 2019.
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- Herman Melville: A Biography (2002) (88)
- The writings of Herman Melville (1968) (75)
- The Writings of Herman Melville: The Northwestern-Newberry Edition, Vol. 6: Moby-Dick: or The Whale: or The Whale (1988) (59)
- Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literary Authority in American Fiction (1984) (55)
- The Writings of Herman Melville: The Northwestern-Newberry Edition, Vol. 5: White-Jacket: or The World in a Man-of-War: or The World in a Man-of-War (1970) (26)
- Melville: The Making of the Poet (2007) (26)
- Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews (2009) (21)
- Melville Biography: An Inside Narrative (2013) (21)
- The Writings of Herman Melville: The Northwestern-Newberry Edition, Vol. 12: Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1991) (20)
- The Writings of Herman Melville: The Northwestern-Newberry Edition, Vol. 8: Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile: His Fifty Years of Exile (1982) (18)
- Herman Melville: A Biography Volume 1, 1819-1851 (1997) (18)
- Moby-Dick (1851) (1995) (18)
- Deconstructing The Art of the Novel and Liberating James's Prefaces (2010) (15)
- The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating (1963) (15)
- The Writings of Herman Melville: The Northwestern-Newberry Edition, Vol. 7: Pierre: or The Ambiguities: or The Ambiguities (1971) (13)
- Critical Essays on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1992) (13)
- Melville's Milton: A Transcription of Melville's Marginalia in His Copy of The Poetical Works of John Milton (2002) (11)
- Moby-Dick As Doubloon; Essays and Extracts, 1851-1970. (1970) (9)
- Melville's Prisoners (2002) (9)
- The Real Live Oak, with Moss: Straight Talk About Whitman's Gay Manifesto (1996) (9)
- Reading "Billy Budd." (1992) (8)
- Herman Melville's The Isle of the Cross: A Survey and a Chronology (1990) (7)
- The Writings of Herman Melville: The Northwestern-Newberry Edition, Vol. 10: The Confidence-Man: His MasqueradeHis Masquerade: His Masquerade (1984) (7)
- The Writings of Herman Melville: The Northwestern-Newberry Edition, Vol. 3: Mardi: and A Voyage Thither: and A Voyage Thither (1970) (7)
- The Writings of Herman Melville: The Northwestern-Newberry Edition, Vol. 1: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1968) (7)
- Reading Melville's Pierre; Or, the Ambiguities (2007) (7)
- The "New Scholarship": Textual Evidence and Its Implications for Criticism, Literary Theory, and Aesthetics (2014) (7)
- Henry James "In the Wood": Sequence and Significances of His Literary Labors, 1905-1907 (1984) (6)
- The recognition of Herman Melville : selected criticism since 1846 (1968) (5)
- The Writings of Herman Melville: The Northwestern-Newberry Edition, Vol. 4: Redburn: His First Voyage: His First Voyage (1969) (5)
- Critical Essays on Herman Melville's Pierre, Or, the Ambiguities (1983) (5)
- Exigencies of Composition and Publication: Billy Budd, Sailor and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1978) (5)
- Moby-Dick : an authoritative text, reviews and letters by Melville, analogues and sources, criticism (2018) (5)
- Melville & Milton: An Edition and Analysis of Melville's Annotations on Milton (2004) (5)
- The Writings of Herman Melville: The Northwestern-Newberry Edition, Vol. 2: Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1968) (4)
- Motion arrested: dance reviews of H.T. Parker (1982) (4)
- The confidence-man : his masquerade : an authoritative text, contemporary reviews, biographical overviews, sources, backgrounds, and criticism (2006) (4)
- Checklist of Melville reviews (1991) (4)
- Three Melville Reviews in the London Weekly Chronicle (1970) (3)
- Dead Letters and Melville's Bartleby (1974) (3)
- Lost Authority: Non-Sense, Skewed Meanings, and Intentionless Meanings (1983) (3)
- Damned by Dollars: Moby-Dick and the Price of Genius (2004) (2)
- Melville and politics : a scrutiny of the political milieux of Herman Melville's life and works (1964) (2)
- "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus": Textual Inhibitions in Whitman Criticism (1997) (2)
- The confidence-man : his masquerade : an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, reviews, criticism, an annotated bibliography (1971) (2)
- The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter 1st Edition (1980) (2)
- The Story of Toby: a Sequel to Typee (1968) (1)
- The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter 7th Edition, Vol. 2 (2008) (1)
- New Essays on The Red Badge of Courage: Getting Used to the “Original Form” of The Red Badge of Courage (1986) (1)
- Herman Melville: The Piazza Tales (1856) (1995) (1)
- Herman Melville: White-Jacket (1850) (1995) (1)
- The ceaa: An Interim Assessment (1974) (1)
- A Reexamination of Melville's Reviewers (1970) (1)
- Walter E. Bezanson: A Memorial (2012) (1)
- Moby-Dick : an authoritative text, before Moby-Dick, international controversy, reviews and letters by Melville, analogues and sources, reviews of Moby Dick, criticism (2002) (1)
- Melville's Use of Classical Mythology (1977) (1)
- Herman Melville: Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) (1995) (1)
- The Method of Melville's Short Fiction (1976) (1)
- Melville and politics (1963) (1)
- : The Red Badge of Courage: A Facsimile Edition of the Manuscript. . Stephen Crane, Fredson Bowers. ; The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War. . Stephen Crane, Fredson Bowers. (1976) (1)
- Pierre and Pierre: Editing and Illustrating Melville (1998) (0)
- Trafficking in Melville1 (1972) (0)
- A Mandate Fulfilled (1965–2017): The Writings of Herman Melville (2019) (0)
- Herman Melville: Series Editor's Preface (1995) (0)
- Shorter works of Hawthorne and Melville (1972) (0)
- Biography and Responsible Uses of the Imagination: Three Episodes from Melville's Homecoming in 1844* (1995) (0)
- : Arthur Mervyn: Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793. Vol. III in the Bicentennial Edition of The Novels and Related Works of Charles Brockden Brown. . Charles Brockden Brown, Sydney J. Krause, S. W. Reid. (1981) (0)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Poetics of Enchantment by Edgar A. Dryden (review) (2014) (0)
- Herman Melville: John Marr and Other Sailors with Some Sea-Pieces (1888) (1995) (0)
- Books received (1986) (0)
- An American Dreamer: A Psychoanalytic Study of the Fiction of Norman Mailer by Andrew Gordon, and: Acts of Regeneration: Allegory and Archetype in the Works of Norman Mailer by Robert J. Begiebing (review) (2014) (0)
- Herman Melville: The Confidence-Man (1857) (1995) (0)
- The Confidence-Man and the Use of Evidence in Compositional Studies: A Rejoinder (1973) (0)
- James B. Meriwether: 1928-2007 (2006) (0)
- Israel Potter (1855) (1995) (0)
- Harrison Hayford (1916-2001): His Students Recollect (2013) (0)
- The Prophetic Melville: Experience, Transcendence, and Tragedy (review) (2014) (0)
- Directory of Melville dissertations (1962) (0)
- “Sound Film Reproduction” (G. F. Jones; 1931) [Book Reviews] (0)
- : Mark Twain's Fables of Man . Mark Twain, Kenneth M. Sanderson, Bernard L. Stein. ; Roughing It . Mark Twain, Kenneth M. Sanderson, Bernard L. Stein. (1973) (0)
- A Companion to Melville Studies. . John Bryant. (1988) (0)
- Billy Budd, sailor and other uncompleted writings : Billy Budd, sailor, Weeds and wildings, Parthenope, uncollected prose, uncollected poetry (2017) (0)
- Gansevoort Melville's 1846 London journal and letters from England, 1845 (1966) (0)
- : Melville's Major Fiction: Politics, Theology, and Imagination. . James Duban. (1984) (0)
- Book Reviews (1993) (0)
- EVIDENCES FOR "LATE INSERTIONS" IN MELVILLE'S WORKS (2016) (0)
- The Lowdown on “Pudd'nhead Wilson”: Jack-leg Novelist, Unreadable Text, Sense-Making Critics, and Basic Issues in Aesthetics (1981) (0)
- Billy Budd (posthumous) (1995) (0)
- A CONCORDANCE TO HERMAN MELVILLE'S “PIERRE; OR, THE AMBIGUITIES.” (1989) (0)
- FREEHAFER ON GREG AND THE CEAA: SECURE FOOTING AND "SUBSTANTIAL SHORTFALLS" (2016) (0)
- Reading 'Billy Budd' (1993) (0)
- The Isle of the Cross and Poems: Lost Melville Books and the Indefinite Afterlife of Error (2007) (0)
- The Talented Ripley Hitchcock (2011) (0)
- THE AUTEUR-AUTHOR PARADOX: HOW CRITICS OF THE CINEMA AND THE NOVEL TALK ABOUT FLAWED OR EVEN "MUTILATED" TEXTS (2016) (0)
- "The New Melville Log": A Progress Report and an Appeal (1990) (0)
- Make-or-Break Reviews (2018) (0)
- The Dates of Stephen Crane's Letters to Amy Leslie (1981) (0)
- Herman Melville: Omoo (1847) (1995) (0)
- An End of Metaphysics in Mark Twain's "Carnival of Crime" (2011) (0)
- MAGGIFS "LAST NIGHTS AUTHORIAL DESIGN AND EDITORIAL PATCHING (2016) (0)
- SISTER CARRIE (1981) (0)
- A Forgotten Early Account of the Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas: P’s Letter to the Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph, August 1863 (2019) (0)
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