The Bibliographical Guide remains the most useful handbook of its kind now available to scholars for research in the field. The fifth revised edition includes updating and considerable but highly selective expansion as well as a section on Women's Studies. This edition includes over 100 new editions as well as more than 750 additional studies and reference works for a total of approximately 1,900 reference items, all annotated with the exception of a few with explanatory subtitles.
Sanford E. Marovitz is professor emeritus of English at Kent State University. He also taught under the Fulbright Program at the University of Athens and as a Visiting Professor at Shimane University, Japan. He has lectured internationally and published widely in critical collections and journals. A former president of the Melville and W. D. Howells Societies, his most recent book is Melville Among the Nations, the proceedings of an international Melville conference he codirected in Greece (The Kent State University Press, 2001).