Pub Date : 2012-10-23DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-1849.2012.01613.x
John Bryant
Readers will recall that our last issue (Leviathan 13.3) was a special issue featuring essays edited by Hilton Obenzinger and Basem Ra’ad, most of which were developed from papers delivered at our “Melville and the Mediterranean” conference in Jerusalem, 2009. Our present number also includes a special issue, this time appearing in our recurring department “Extracts,” and squired into existence by our associate editor Samuel Otter. It features keynote addresses, reports, and a photo gallery, all drawn from another momentous conference, “Melville and Rome,” which took place in Rome and Naples, on June 22–26, 2011. In keeping with other special issues of “Extracts” like it, the present number celebrates the Melville Society’s tradition of biannual international conferences begun in 1997. In due course, Leviathan will also publish a special issue of essays drawn from the Rome conference. But for the moment, contemplating the sequence of one conference-related special issue after another has brought a feeling of convergence and yet loss. Our international conferences—one every two years, with future ones being planned, as we speak, for Washington, DC, Tokyo, and other venues on up to the much anticipated bicentennial year of 2019—remind us of how much the Melville Society has grown in the past two decades. Augmenting its scholarly reputation as a leading single-author society is the Melville Society Cultural Project (MSCP), which maintains a thriving archive and coordinates outreach programs at home and abroad. And the society’s new affiliation with the Melville Electronic Library (MEL) signals our further development into the digital world. Similarly, our international conferences have brought together in ever-larger numbers diverse scholars from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas. Increasingly, the Melville Society is becoming the cosmopolitan crew it always aimed to be from its beginnings in 1947. But with this sense of convergence coming out of this past year of growth and celebration also comes a sense of loss with the passing of three deeply admired Melville scholars, two of whom are memorialized in our pages here—Walter Bezanson and Stanton Garner—and one to be memorialized in a later issue: Milton Stern. Each was old enough in their final year to have known a time when Melville was not a cultural icon of world literature but a newly resurrected literary question mark. For them, Melville was still terra incognita, and while, in my view, Melville always remains deliciously, fruitfully
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Pub Date : 2012-06-11DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-1849.2012.01558.x
Gordon M. Poole
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Pub Date : 2012-06-11DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-1849.2012.01586_1.x
O rganized and moderated by Joseph Fruscione (Melville Society), Tyler Hoffman (Rutgers University, Camden), and Elizabeth Petrino (Fairfield University), this collaborative panel brought together five scholar/teachers at various stages of their careers to discuss the Civil War– era poetry of Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. Each panelist gave a short, focused talk that sparked a lively discussion. This was the Melville Society’s second collaborative panel for MLA, and it was successful and engaging (with 54 audience members). In part, this panel was designed as a preview for the June 2013 Melville International Conference, “Melville and Whitman in Washington: The Civil War Years and After.” Our goal for the roundtable was to examine these authors’ different types of poetry, as well as to investigate the growing interest in parsing the aesthetic, political, and formal responses of these three innovative responses to the Civil War. The panelists showed a strong awareness of recent scholarship and of useful new directions of scholarly work on these writers and their era. Each, in his or her own way, helped include Melville in current critical conversations about nineteenthcentury American poetry.
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Pub Date : 2012-06-11DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-1849.2012.01456.x
JINCAI YANG
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Pub Date : 2012-06-11DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-1849.2012.01471.x
GAIL SHANNON
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Pub Date : 2012-06-11DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-1849.2012.01589.x
Samuel Otter
In this special issue of “Extracts,” we feature the Melville Society’s Eighth International Conference, “Melville and Rome: Empire—Democracy— Belief—Art,” which was held at the Centro Studi Americani (June 22) and the Università di Roma–Sapienza (June 23–25), with a day-trip to Naples (June 26). More than ninety scholars from over a dozen nations participated. The splendid conference was organized by John Bryant (Hofstra University), Giorgio Mariani (Università di Roma–Sapienza), and Gordon Poole (Università degli studi l’Orientale, Napoli). As a record of the conference, we present the three keynote addresses by Dennis Berthold, Gordon Poole, and Leslie Marmon Silko; reports by Laura López Peña, Peter Riley, Elizabeth Schultz, and Jincai Yang; and a photo gallery. Videos from the Rome conference (and also the 2009 “Melville and the Mediterranean” conference in Jerusalem) can be viewed on the Society website (melvillesociety.org) under the “Media” tab. The Rome offerings include readings of Melville’s poem “In a Bye-Canal” by Gordon Poole (in English) and Susanna Poole (in Italian). Under the “Galleries” tab, you can find over ninety photos of the Rome conference. The videos from the 2009 and 2011 international conferences can be viewed on the Society’s new YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMelvilleSociety. We also include abstracts for the papers given at three panels—“New Approaches to Melville,” “Clarel and Beyond,” and “Battle-Pieces”—at the American Literature Association Conference, held last May in Boston. The Melville Society Cultural Project team (Jennifer Baker, Mary K. Bercaw Edwards, Wyn Kelley, Timothy Marr, Christopher Sten, and Robert K. Wallace) met in New Bedford in July for a round of crucial meetings focused on a productive new stage in the MSCP’s relationship with the New Bedford Whaling Museum. The Museum recently lost federal funding for many of its educational programs and has gone through a period of financial cuts and restructuring. Nevertheless, they embarked on an ambitious series of Melvillerelated events this past fall and winter, under the leadership of President James Russell and Vice President of Education and Programming James Lopes. Called Moby!, the series began on October 19 with Nathaniel Philbrick delivering a lecture on his recent book, Why Read Moby-Dick? In a partnership between the museum and the Zeiterion Performance Center in New Bedford, the Gare St. Lazare Players of Ireland presented a theatrical performance of Moby-Dick on November 3–5. The Mayor of Youghal, County Cork, in Ireland, where John Huston’s 1956 Moby Dick was filmed, introduced the play as well as a
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Pub Date : 2012-06-11DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-1849.2012.01474.x
NICHOLAS BIRNS
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Pub Date : 2012-06-11DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-1849.2012.01530.x
Marta L. Werner
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