Forthcoming 2017 Publication of the Final Volume of Northwestern-Newberry Writings of Herman Melville series
Robert Sandberg
Later this year, after more than 30 years of working with the nearly 1,000 manuscript leaves of the writings that Melville left unpublished at the time of his death, the final volume of the fifteen-volume Northwestern-Newberry edition of The Writings of Herman Melville-edited by Harrison Hayford, Alma MacDougall, Robert A. Sandberg, and G. Thomas Tanselle, with a Historical Note by Hershel Parker-will finally be published.
Title-page proof below.
We just received the proofs in our mailboxes today.
As to what the volume includes, here is an abbreviated summary of the Northwestern University Press catalog description:
"Billy Budd, Sailor" and Other Uncompleted Writings, the final volume of the fifteen-volume Northwestern-Newberry Edition of The Writings of Herman Melville, will be published in late 2017. Volume 13 of the series, it includes Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), Weeds and Wildings, Chiefly: With a Rose or Two, Parthenope: "At the Hostelry" and "An Afternoon in Naples in the Time of Bomba," “Rammon,” “Story of Daniel Orme,” “Under the Rose,” and some three dozen uncollected poems. The literary texts—all unpublished during Melville's lifetime—are based on new or corrected transcriptions of the manuscripts. The new reading texts feature significant corrections of words, phrases, titles, the inclusion of heretofore unpublished lines of verse, and the return to their original locations of the two poems Melville had extracted—“The Enviable Isles” and “Pausilippo”—for publication in John Marr and Timoleon. The editorial apparatus includes a Historical Note by Hershel Parker, a General Note on the Text by G. Thomas Tanselle, Notes on Individual Pieces by Tanselle and Robert A. Sandberg, complete transcriptions of the manuscripts, images of selected manuscript leaves, and several related documents, which include the Typee manuscript fragment, the open letter to Charles Macready, and Melville's memoir of his uncle Thomas. The publication of this final volume concludes the project that was begun in 1965 by Harrison Hayford, with Hershel Parker and G. Thomas Tanselle as co-editors.
And, here is a link to an article by Lee Sandlin, written sometime in the 1990s, telling the story of Harry Hayford's life-long (1916-2001) effort to publish the 15-volume collection of Melville's complete writings. http://www.leesandlin.com/articles/EditedMelville.htm
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