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Date of this Version

6-1961

Document Type

Thesis

Citation

Thesis (M.A.)—University of Nebraska—Lincoln, 1961. Department of English.

Comments

Copyright 1961, the author. Used by permission.

Abstract

My aim is to study several of Melville’s major works of fiction in the light a pamphlet called “Chronometricals and Horologicals”, which purports to be by one Plotinus Plinlimmon in Melville’s novel Pierre: or The Ambiguities. In my view of Melville’s works, this pamphlet is as near a statement of the author’s philosophy (as dramatized in his works) as can be formulated. I do not maintain that a study of the relationship of the pamphlet to the works will reveal the whole “truth” about the “meaning” of Melville’s fiction, but I do think that it will show a significant thematic pattern.

Advisor: James E. Miller, Jr.

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