• Hershel Parker is an American professor of English and literature, noted for his research into the works of Herman Melville. Parker is the H. Fletcher...
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    Protest". In Parker and Hayford, eds., 2001. Parker, Hershel (1988). "Historical Note Section VII". In Melville (1988). Parker, Hershel, and Harrison...
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    with the Angel." Modern Language Quarterly, June 1940. Reprinted in Hershel Parker (ed.), The Recognition of Herman Melville. Selected Criticism since...
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  • Latin scholar Hershel of Ostropol, a prominent figure in Jewish humor Hershel Parker, American literary historian Herschel Clifford Parker (1867–1931),...
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    Review wrote that Melville's "fancy is diseased". Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker characterize the novel as "an ambitious experiment in psychological...
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    high status ever since. In 1990 the Melville biographer and scholar Hershel Parker pointed out that all the early estimations of Billy Budd were based...
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    novella as one of the highlights in the collection. Melville biographer Hershel Parker calls it "an intensely controlled work, formally one of the most nearly...
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    his wife's opinion of his financial conduct is unknown, biographer Hershel Parker says that Maria "thought her mother's money was infinite and that she...
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    original signature," as critic Warner Berthoff describes it. Biographer Hershel Parker finds the narrator "powerfully attractive," because through the comical...
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  • demeanor, and his intense application to his duties." Melville biographer Hershel Parker said nothing else in the chapter besides this "remarkably evocative...
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  • influential early book establishing him as an authority. His student, Hershel Parker, wrote that "he did it his way." He never published his Yale doctoral...
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  • (1851) and Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852). Melville biographer Hershel Parker suggests that the work, perhaps a novel, perhaps a story, was what had...
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    Melville's various titles. The aim of the editors, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle, was to present unmodernized "critical texts"...
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    Barnes In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country Finalist Hershel Parker Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819–1851 Finalist 1998 Katharine...
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    432. Sharp, John G.M., Edward Fitzgerald Sr. (1785-1857) Purser USN. Parker, Hershel, Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819-1851 (Johns Hopkins University...
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    January 2014. Helen Vendler, "'No Poetry You Have Read'" (review of Hershel Parker, ed., Herman Melville: Complete Poems, Library of America, 990 pp.)...
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  • Press. pp. 128–161. reprinted in Hayford, Harrison With a foreword by Hershel Parker (2003). Melville's Prisoners. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University...
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    language to make the allegory clear. According to Melville's biographer Hershel Parker, the way that the allegory permeates quotidian conversations makes them...
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  • Society | Hotel Files". www.nyhistory.org. Retrieved 2021-12-21. {“Hershel Parker”} "MRS. S. HAMILTON, JR., DEAD.; Took an Overdose of Morphine at Her...
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    2011. Eisler, Benita. Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame, page 3. Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography; Volume 1, 1819–1851, (Baltimore and London:...
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  • what they saw as this romantic view. Melville scholar and biographer Hershel Parker wrote that among the new generation Bezanson was the scholar who set...
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    John E. Gray – prominent banker and President of Lamar University Hershel Parker – H. Fletcher Brown Professor Emeritus at the University of Delaware...
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  • Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Hershel Parker (15 August 2005). Herman Melville: A Biography. JHU Press. p. 920....
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  • Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Hershel Parker (1996). Herman Melville: A Biography. JHU Press. p. 920. ISBN 978-0-8018-8186-2...
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  • Thomas Mallon 2019 978-1-59853-620-1 320 Herman Melville Complete Poems Hershel Parker 2019 978-1-59853-618-8 321 various American Science Fiction: Four Classic...
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    Brighton waterfront on Staten Island. Herman Melville: A Biography, by Hershel Parker, 1996, p. 651 "Snug Harbor Saved by Court Decision". The New York Times...
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  • University of Florida. Hershel Parker, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of American Romanticism, University of Delaware. Robert Ladislav Parker, Associate Professor...
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  • Royall Tyler. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Hayford, Harrison; Hershel Parker; G. Thomas Tanselle, eds. (1968). The Writings of Herman Melville. Evanston...
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    William Ward, Andrew Jackson: Symbol for an Age, 1962, pages 129 to 132 Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 2005, page 359 Parke Godwin...
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  • reviewing the year's publications on Melville. In the chapter for 1974, Hershel Parker called Sealts's The Early Lives of Melville the year's best study: "This...
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