• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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