Herman Melville
Melville, Maria, mother of Herman Melville, comparison with Mrs.
Glendinning, 14
Melville, Stanwix, 287
Melville, Thomas, ambition to become sailor, 67
Men-about-literature, 333
Metcalf, Eleanor Melville, v
Milton, 191
Minnigerode, Meade, 285
Misinterpretation of Melville, 224
Missionaries, 74
Moby-Dick, writing of, 147-157;
summary of, 158-176;
criticism of, 176-195;
symphonic quality, 182;
organic conception of, 182;
its meaning as story of sea, 183;
as parable of evil, 184;
as tragedy of man, 187;
as contrast of practical and ideal life, 188
Modern vision of life, 194
Mohi, 95
Monody (to Hawthorne), 265
Mortmain, 310
Murray, Dr. Henry A., Jr., vi
Murray, John, 73
Mythology, Moby-Dick as first modern, 193
Nathan, 310
Nature, oneness with, 351;
paints like a harlot, 352
New York, in 1819, 15-16;
after Civil War, 326;
its brutality, 327
New Bedford, centre of whaling industry, 42, 158
No Trust, 249
O’Brien, Fitz-James, 198
Olympians, English, 124
Omoo, 81-84
Orthodox illusions, Melville’s rejection of, 324-325
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, 191
Palestine, effect on Melville, 309
Paradise of Bachelors, 130, 236
Paradox of morality, 216
Passion, reawakening in Italy, 275;
frustration, 276-281
Parrington, Vernon, 199
Peace, Melville’s ultimate, 357
Pequod, The, 161
Personal disappointment and bitterness, 109;
an Ishmael, 109
Physical characteristics, Melville’s, 119
Physical weakness, 225
Piazza Tales, The, 243
Pictures, Melville’s favourite, 130, 336
Pierre, 196-206
Pilgrims, Melville’s and Chaucer’s, 311-312
Pip, 170
Pittsfield, 135, 341
Plotinus Plinlimmon, 215
Political institutions, Melville’s misgivings over, 295
Post-bellum America, 343
Primal world, Melville’s consciousness of, 353
Progress, its illusory nature, 313-314
Prose-sketches, 337
Provincial society, 9;
its economic foundations, 10;
mixture of nationalities, 10;
reality of family, 11;
idealized in Pierre, 13;
destruction, 292
Psychological truth, in Pierre, 211
Pyramids, the, effect on Melville, 271
Queequeg, 160
Rama, 330
Rammon, Introduction to, quoted, 323
Realism, 5
Recoil from black experience, 255
Redburn, 108-114
Refugee, The, 290
Rembrandt, 336
Resignation, on point of, 259
Retarding environment, 345
Return of the Sire de Nesle, 90
Revolutionary betterment, psychological problem of, 316
Rip Van Winkle, Melville’s addition to, 353
Rolfe, 310
Rose Garden, The, 348
Rumour of Melville’s insanity, 224
Ruskin, John, in praise of war, 359
Russell, W. Clark, 334
Ruth, 310
Ryder, Albert Pinkham, 335
Sailors, hard life, 30;
monotony of pleasures, 31
Salvator R. Tarnmoor, pseudonym for H. M., 239
Satire, perfection in White-Jacket, 116;
in The Confidence Man, 253
Science, Melville’s utilization of, 163
Sea Poems, 334, 340
Seaman’s Bethel, 43
Serenia, 99
Sermon on the Mount, 195
Sexual feud, 277
Shakespeare, William, Melville’s discovery of in maturity, 138;
Messianic likeness for Melville, 138
Shaw, Lemuel, inheritance left by, 336
Significance, Melville’s, 361-368
Slavery, Melville’s attitude towards, 296;
Hawthorne’s attitude, 297
Smith, J. E. A., testimony on Melville, 341
Society, immoral practices of, 111
Social observation, Melville’s, 314-316
Starbuck, 164
Stedman, Arthur, 358
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 327
Stewart, Miss Caroline, v
Stoddard, R. H., 329
Surgeon Cuticle, his operation, 116
Synthesis, foreshadowed by Melville, 362
Taboo, its caprices, 50;
effect of sexual, 78
Taji, 94-101
Tartarus of Maids, The, 64, 236
Tashtego, 165
Thomas, Mrs. Frances, v
Thomson, James, 334
Thoreau, experiment at Walden, 65
Thy Aim, Thy Aim?, 348
Timonism, 233
Toby, 72;
story of, 74
Tragic sense of life, the, 358
Transcendentalists, satire on, 213
Travels, to Liverpool, 29;
to London, 119;
to Paris, 127;
to Liverpool (1856), 261;
to Greece, 265;
to Constantinople, 267;
to Cairo, 270;
to Jerusalem, 272;
through Europe, 273;
to California, 284
Turner, 336
Twenty-sixth Street, 104 East, 328
Two Years Before the Mast, effect on Melville, 40
Typee, 68-76
Typees, their cannibalism, 47;
customs, 48;
superiority to Western Civilization, 48;
their beauty, 49;
pleasures of their life, 49;
Melville’s escape from, 52
Ulver, Delly, 203
Unconscious, discovery of the, 102
Universe, acceptance of, 351;
false metaphysical separation of, 352
Vedder, Elihu, 334
Vere, Captain the Honorable Edward Fairfax, 354
Versification, Melville’s weakness in, 303, 320
Vice and Virtue, 217
Victorian confidence, 318
Vine, 310
Vision, wholeness of, 368
Vivenza, 97
Vivia, 205
War, its anomalous nature, 298;
its arousal of Melville, 298-302
as image of Melville’s life, 299
Watson, E. L. G., 369
Weaver, Raymond, v, 344
Weeds and Wildings, 344
Wendell, Barrett, 80
Whale, first effect on Melville, 41;
a New Bedford memory, 42;
as symbol, 162;
as natural history, 162, 163
Whale ship, Melville’s College, 46
Whaling implements, 45
White, as symbol of elemental truth, 168
White-Jacket, 114-118
Whitehead, A. N., 191
White Whale, incarnation of malicious agencies, 166;
symbol of external universe, 167;
Ahab’s defiance of, 167
Whitman, Walt, 4, 5
Woman, her absence in Melville’s work, 201
Woodberry, George, 80
Work, dignity of, 332
Wulf, Uncle John de, 20
Yillah, 94;
symbol of spiritual quest, 51;
beckons Melville, 52
Yoomy, 95
Young Goodman Brown, 203
[Transcriber’s note: Italics are rendered with _underscores_. Small
capitals, when used as emphasis, are shown with +plus signs+.
A small number of spelling corrections were made (“ultilizes/utilizes”,
“Mappie’s/Mapple’s”, “closses/closes”). Inconsistent hyphenation (e.g.,
“whale-boat” vs. “whaleboat”) has been retained.]