Further Reading
Aaron Sachs' reading list for *Moby Dick*
Following the introduction to his new translation of The Odyssey, Daniel Mendelsohn provides a list titled “Further Reading,” of which he writes: “The following list of articles, books, and essay collections on Homer and the Odyssey is designed to be of use to general readers interested in learning more about the epic and its world.” We have now begun inviting other guests on The World in Time to share Further Reading lists that likewise aim “to be of use to general readers interested in learning more.” Here Aaron Sachs, a guest most recently on Episode 8 of our podcast, shares a Further Reading list for Melville’s Moby-Dick. You can read “Unspeakable Terrors, Unalterable Threads: Herman Melville’s Cosmic Cetology”—an excerpt from Sachs’ Up from the Depths—on our website.
Bryant, John. Melville and Repose: The Rhetoric of Humor in the American Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Cotkin, George. Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Delbanco, Andrew. Melville: His World and Work. New York: Vintage, 2005.
Dillingham, William B. Melville and His Circle: The Last Years. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
Evans, K.L. One Foot in the Infinite: Melville’s Realism Reclaimed. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Garner, Stanton. The Civil War World of Herman Melville. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993.
Hardwick, Elizabeth. Herman Melville. New York: Viking, 2000.
Hayes, Kevin J., ed. Herman Melville in Context. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Higgins, Brian, and Hershel Parker. Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
James, C.L.R. Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In. Detroit: Bewick/ed, 1978.
Kelley, Wyn. Melville’s City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Levine, Robert S., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Marrs, Cody, ed. The New Melville Studies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Mumford, Lewis. Herman Melville. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1929.
Mushabac, Jane. Melville’s Humor: A Critical Study. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1981.
Olsen-Smith, Steven. Melville in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2015.
Olson, Charles. Call Me Ishmael: A Study of Melville. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1947.
Parker, Hershel. Herman Melville: A Biography, Voume 2, 1851-1891. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Parker, Hershel. Melville: The Making of the Poet. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2008.
Philbrick, Nathaniel. Why Read Moby-Dick? New York: Penguin Books, 2011.
Rogin, Michael Paul. Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
Sachs, Aaron. The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism. New York: Viking, 2006.
Sanborn, Geoffrey. The Value of Herman Melville. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Spark, Clare. Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2001.
Tolchin, Neal L. Mourning, Gender, and Creativity in the Art of Herman Melville. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.