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Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)

RESOURCES:

Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).

SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>

Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding Herman Melville.

DATABASE	SEARCH TERMS	RESULTS
Academic Search Premier	*herman melville* Perform the basic search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text," and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals."	Provides a number of relevant items.
Arts & Sciences Collection	*herman melville* JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collection, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details).	Provides a number of items, which are mostly reviews.
Columbia Granger's World of Poetry Online	*melville, herman* Perform the default search.	Provides a number of poems.
Encyclopedia Britannica	*herman melville* Perform the default search.	Provides a primary encyclopedia article, several related articles and a number of Web sites.
Expanded Academic ASAP	*herman melville* Perform the Keyword search, NOT the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text" and "to refereed publication."	Provides a large number of worthy items.
Literature Resource Center	*herman melville* Perform the default (author) search. After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, Web links, and journal articles (many are full-text).	Provides a small number of quality documents.
netLibrary	*herman melville* Perform the basic search and select the Full Text checkbox.	Provides an enormous number of eBooks that refer to the author, along with a number that focus on his life and works.
Research Library Complete	*herman melville* Perform the basic search. Set the "Database" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary -Research Library." Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and "Scholarly journals."	Provides a good number of excellent items.
Scribner's	Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the *Melville, Herman* link.	Provides an essay about the author and his works, along with a bibliography and a supplement.
Sirs Renaissance	*herman melville* Perform the "Quick Search."	Provides a number of excellent items.
Twayne Authors Series- Twayne World, English and US Authors	Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the *Melville, Herman* link.	Provides a small number of quality items

SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>

The following bibliography is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
Circulating books not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary loan.
eBooks are electronic books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide via the Internet.
Twentieth century interpretations of Billy Budd
PS2384B7V5
Location: Troy, AL

Melville: a collection of critical essays
PS2387.C45
Location: Dothan
Melville's thematics of form: the great art of telling the telling the truth
PS2387D7 1981
Location: Troy, AL, Dothan

A reader's guide to Herman Melville
PS2387M5 1973
Location: Troy, AL

Tales, poems, and other writings
PS2382 .B79 2001
Location: Troy, AL

Moby Dick, or, the whale
Location: eBook

Benito Cereno
Location: eBook

Billy Budd
Location: eBook

Typee
Location: eBook

Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile
Location: eBook

Selected poems of Herman Melville
Location: eBook

Cast by means of figures: Herman Melville's rhetorical development
Location: eBook

The composition of Herman Melville
Location: eBook

Herman Melville
Location: eBook

Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, & Bartleby the Scrivener
Location: eBook

Herman Melville's Malcolm Letter: "Man's Final Lore"
Location: eBook

"The Twisted Mind”: madness in Herman Melville's fiction
Location: eBook

SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>
Life and Works of Herman Melville
http://www.melville.org
Herman Melville
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C040109
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/m/melville19ro.htm
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/melville.htm
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
http://www.littlebluelight.com/lblphp/intro.php?ikey=18

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