Archive - Melvilliana

Great American reviews of MOBY-DICK

A sampling to shatter the myth of critical neglect and confound your communist English professor

Mar 26 •

Scott Norsworthy

Charles Van Loon, teenage abolitionist

For the time being, Charles was not yet sufficiently evangelized to rise above his prejudice.

Mar 10 •

Scott Norsworthy

December 2024

Ten YUGE WINS for Melvilliana in 2024

Greetings from the Minnesota bank of beautiful Lake Pepin, otherwise known as the Mississippi River.

Dec 31, 2024 •

Scott Norsworthy

October 2024

Tokens of ghostwriting

Writing, talking, and rewriting like Herman Melville in "Scenes Beyond the Western Border" (1851-1853). Chapter 2.

Oct 25, 2024 •

Scott Norsworthy

May 2023

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.

Sep 2, 2022 •

Scott Norsworthy

June 2022

Lacordaire in Clarel

Greetings from the prairie, Dear Subscriber!

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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