Herman Melville: among the magazines
- Submitting institution
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University of Nottingham, The
- Unit of assessment
- 25 - Area Studies
- Output identifier
- 1319797
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press
- ISBN
- 9781625343246
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 100,000-word book is the first to consider Herman Melville as a magazine writer. It is the result of a decade of work, including archival research at Princeton, Harvard, and the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City. It takes a new approach to Melville, by considering his anonymous contributions to Harper’s New Monthly Magazine and Putnam’s Monthly Magazine in the light of changes to print technology and the magazine publishing industry. It aims to discover a new Melville enmeshed with forgotten materials, editors, writers, and literary traditions, and ultimately a writer who was squarely part of the magazine world.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Chapter 1, ‘The Plain Facts of Paper,’ shares material with the REF2014-submitted article ‘The “Plain Facts” of Fine Paper in “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,”’ American Literature 84.3 (2012), 505-32. The book chapter amends and condenses material in the journal article and includes 6000 words of new material (pp. 25–30, 39–44). Part of chapter 2, ‘“What Nots” and the Genres of Magazine Writing’ (pp. 85–94) first appeared in ‘Bartleby and the Magazine Fiction’ (also submitted to REF2014) in Robert Levine (ed.), The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville (Cambridge, 2014): 99–112.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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