American Renaissance | Douglas Tallack (essay date 1993)
Douglas Tallack (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: Tallack, Douglas. “Not Unoriginal: Herman Melville's Short Stories.” In The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story: Language, Form and Ideology, pp. 140-80. London: Routledge, 1993.
[In the following essay, Tallack examines Melville's use of narrative technique and point-of-view in “The Town-Ho's Story.”]
That would be too long a story …
—Herman Melville, ‘The Town-Ho's Story’
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Shortly before its publication in 1851 as Chapter 54 of Moby-Dick, ‘The Town-Ho's Story’ appeared in an issue of Harper's Magazine accompanied by a footnote which read: ‘From “The Whale”. The title of a new work by Mr Melville, in the press of Harper's and Brothers, and now publishing in London by Mr Bentley’ (Melville 1851: 658). Later in 1851 the Baltimore Weekly Sun and the Cincinnati Daily...
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