{"title":"Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature by Michael J. Colacurcio (review)","authors":"J. Cook","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2022.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2022.0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":"102 1","pages":"101 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75770185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lettere a Hawthorne by Herman Melville (review)","authors":"Gordon M. Poole","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2022.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2022.0037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":" 8","pages":"114 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72378805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Playwright and great-great-great grandaughter of Herman Melville, Elizabeth Doss, takes her family tree from the page to the stage in Poor Herman: a play that unearths the personal and professional failures of a literary icon. In this essay, she explores how research, genes, fact, and fiction interwine into a deeply personal and wholly imperfect portrait of her ancestors.
{"title":"\"Who is Poor Herman to Me?\"","authors":"Elizabeth Anne Doss","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2022.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2022.0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Playwright and great-great-great grandaughter of Herman Melville, Elizabeth Doss, takes her family tree from the page to the stage in Poor Herman: a play that unearths the personal and professional failures of a literary icon. In this essay, she explores how research, genes, fact, and fiction interwine into a deeply personal and wholly imperfect portrait of her ancestors.","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":"9 1","pages":"81 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81696293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The label "a Poeish tale" was tagged to "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" since its serial publication in 1853. In 1969, James Colwell and Gary Spitzer offered a compelling comparison between the story of the copyist who resists both obeying the orders and abandoning the chambers of his legal employer, and the tale of the stubborn raven of ill-omen who harasses the "chamber door" of a studious subject in Poe's most famous narrative poem, "The Raven." This paper tracks Poe's poem as a possible subtext for Melville's Bartleby, analyzing what, in Melville, departs from Poe's solipsistic view of the poet as reader tortured in a cloistered, immanent world of his making, and instead takes as its focus the man of letters in an expanding marketplace, and his confrontation with the scrivener and the wall, or page, which neither his eyesight nor his report can interpret or illuminate. The essay describes three structural dichotomies in both works: the settings of the chamber and the office; the tone of the refrain and the formula; and the widening scope of "letters," from literature to law, which facilitates the fluctuation of signs. The analysis argues for the centrality of language and heuristic (in)capacity as crucial for Poe and Melville, both of them heralds of the Romantic crisis of literature where the human subject is left dwelling alone, reading obscure material (in "The Raven") or writing copies (in "Bartleby"), and shut off from words or referents outside or beyond the imagination.
{"title":"\"Still more a fixture than before\": Poe and Melville Working in Close(d) Chambers","authors":"Margarida Vale de Gato","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2022.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2022.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The label \"a Poeish tale\" was tagged to \"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street\" since its serial publication in 1853. In 1969, James Colwell and Gary Spitzer offered a compelling comparison between the story of the copyist who resists both obeying the orders and abandoning the chambers of his legal employer, and the tale of the stubborn raven of ill-omen who harasses the \"chamber door\" of a studious subject in Poe's most famous narrative poem, \"The Raven.\" This paper tracks Poe's poem as a possible subtext for Melville's Bartleby, analyzing what, in Melville, departs from Poe's solipsistic view of the poet as reader tortured in a cloistered, immanent world of his making, and instead takes as its focus the man of letters in an expanding marketplace, and his confrontation with the scrivener and the wall, or page, which neither his eyesight nor his report can interpret or illuminate. The essay describes three structural dichotomies in both works: the settings of the chamber and the office; the tone of the refrain and the formula; and the widening scope of \"letters,\" from literature to law, which facilitates the fluctuation of signs. The analysis argues for the centrality of language and heuristic (in)capacity as crucial for Poe and Melville, both of them heralds of the Romantic crisis of literature where the human subject is left dwelling alone, reading obscure material (in \"The Raven\") or writing copies (in \"Bartleby\"), and shut off from words or referents outside or beyond the imagination.","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":"199 1","pages":"50 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83106608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Seek, and you shall find. This present library is an example of what may remain to be found. Knock, and it shall be opened. This hoard of books from Jane L. Melville’s library is a salient opening to the past. I came upon the following matter accidentally, when I was collecting documentation on the Melville families and consequently was looking for patterns and threads. I would like to believe that Jane Melville was saying to me and to you: follow your nose!
{"title":"The Library of Jane L. Melville: With Some Provocations toward the Creativity of Herman Melville","authors":"John M. J. Gretchko","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Seek, and you shall find. This present library is an example of what may remain to be found. Knock, and it shall be opened. This hoard of books from Jane L. Melville’s library is a salient opening to the past. I came upon the following matter accidentally, when I was collecting documentation on the Melville families and consequently was looking for patterns and threads. I would like to believe that Jane Melville was saying to me and to you: follow your nose!","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":"6 1","pages":"54 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74884442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Herman Melville owned wagons for almost the entirety of his thirteen years at Arrowhead, and his pleasure in using them makes regular appearances in his letters and in accounts of the author. In this note, I reveal a newly uncovered newspaper advertisement, published in the Berkshire County Eagle in 1863, in which Melville offers to sell his prized “pleasure wagon” after having taken a bad fall from it. Building off his writings about wagons and his recollections of driving in the Berkshires, I argue that the advertisement poignantly symbolizes the loss of Melville’s physical prime, his youth, and his home at Arrowhead.
摘要:赫尔曼·梅尔维尔(Herman Melville)在箭头镇(Arrowhead)的十三年里几乎一直都有马车，他对马车的喜爱经常出现在他的信件和作者的叙述中。在这篇文章中，我展示了一则新发现的报纸广告，刊登在1863年的《伯克希尔郡鹰报》(Berkshire County Eagle)上，梅尔维尔在从车上摔了一跤后，提出要卖掉他那辆珍贵的“享乐马车”。根据梅尔维尔关于马车的著作和他在伯克郡开车的回忆，我认为这则广告深刻地象征着梅尔维尔身体上的黄金时期、他的青春和他在箭头镇的家的丧失。
{"title":"Melville Off the Wagon","authors":"Zachary M Turpin","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2022.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2022.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Herman Melville owned wagons for almost the entirety of his thirteen years at Arrowhead, and his pleasure in using them makes regular appearances in his letters and in accounts of the author. In this note, I reveal a newly uncovered newspaper advertisement, published in the Berkshire County Eagle in 1863, in which Melville offers to sell his prized “pleasure wagon” after having taken a bad fall from it. Building off his writings about wagons and his recollections of driving in the Berkshires, I argue that the advertisement poignantly symbolizes the loss of Melville’s physical prime, his youth, and his home at Arrowhead.","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":"32 1","pages":"76 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87018195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay examines Melville’s Civil War poetry in Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, a collection that I read as formally enacting its ethical commitment to fostering relationality across divisions, even species divisions, through its adoption of natural history as a methodology for poetic construction. As its individual poems gain in meaning when read in relation to one another, so Melville’s poetic recuperation of the war’s many losses in Battle-Pieces produces an analytic for reckoning with multiple concurrent experiences of loss, bringing the ecological interests of Battle-Pieces to the fore. Attending to these interests, I situate Melville’s poetry in the environmental history of the Civil War, demonstrating how nineteenth-century Americans recognized the war as a crisis of human-nonhuman relations, both during and after the conflict. Ultimately, I argue that trees in Battle-Pieces index not only the disasters brought upon nonhuman lives during the war, but also the hopeful possibility for renewed life after great loss, reminding readers of the responsibility of remembering ongoing life and historical redress.
{"title":"The Natural History of Loss in Battle-Pieces","authors":"Ami Yoon","doi":"10.1353/lvn.2022.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2022.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines Melville’s Civil War poetry in Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, a collection that I read as formally enacting its ethical commitment to fostering relationality across divisions, even species divisions, through its adoption of natural history as a methodology for poetic construction. As its individual poems gain in meaning when read in relation to one another, so Melville’s poetic recuperation of the war’s many losses in Battle-Pieces produces an analytic for reckoning with multiple concurrent experiences of loss, bringing the ecological interests of Battle-Pieces to the fore. Attending to these interests, I situate Melville’s poetry in the environmental history of the Civil War, demonstrating how nineteenth-century Americans recognized the war as a crisis of human-nonhuman relations, both during and after the conflict. Ultimately, I argue that trees in Battle-Pieces index not only the disasters brought upon nonhuman lives during the war, but also the hopeful possibility for renewed life after great loss, reminding readers of the responsibility of remembering ongoing life and historical redress.","PeriodicalId":36222,"journal":{"name":"Leviathan (Germany)","volume":"7 1","pages":"21 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87405297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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