Resource Guide:
Herman Melville

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Melville Society
• The Life and Works of Herman Melville
• Herman Melville's Arrowhead
• walking Tour: Herman Melville's Downtown New York City
• Melville's Marginalia Online
• Herman Melville Papers

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Billy Budd
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 - Criticism and interpretation
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 - Fiction
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 - Political and social views
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 - Religion
• Romatnicism - Unites States - History - 19th Century
• Romanticism
• Gothic Revival
• Whaling
• Metaphysics in literature

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• ArchiveGrid
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• JSTOR
• Literature Resources from Gale

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• American Literature
• New England Quarterly
• American Heritage
• Leviathan: A journal of Melville Studies
• Nineteenth-Century Literature

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.