Archive - Melvilliana

All I want is a good listener

Writing, talking, and rewriting like Herman Melville in "Scenes Beyond the Western Border" (1851-1853). No. 1, Introduction.

May 11, 2023 •

Scott Norsworthy

September 2022

Saint Elizabeth's miracle of roses in Melville's "Rosary Beads"

I. Take the best right now. Without Price is the second of three short, devotionally oriented stanzas, numbered and strung into poetic Rosary Beads in…

Sep 2, 2022 •

Scott Norsworthy

June 2022

Lacordaire in Clarel

Greetings from the prairie, Dear Subscriber! Here on Substack I still hope eventually to introduce the matter of another blog experiment, Dragooned…

Jun 29, 2022 •

Scott Norsworthy

March 2022

Blessings of snow and bad ventilation

Documenting Melville's debts to familiar science in "Poor Man's Pudding" (1854)

Mar 29, 2022 •

Scott Norsworthy

Borrowed thunder, part 2

Melville's rewrite of familiar science in "The Lightning-Rod Man"

Mar 25, 2022 •

Scott Norsworthy

Borrowed thunder

Melville's rewrite of familiar science in "The Lightning-Rod Man"

Mar 23, 2022 •

Scott Norsworthy

January 2022

This is Melvilliana, a newsletter with original research and riffs on Melville, authorship, etc.

Jan 28, 2022 •

Scott Norsworthy

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