By any name children will qualify as amateur Melville scholars if they visit the South Street Seaport this weekend.

The Melville scholars surely protected Melville as their professional discovery.

The tantrums of these Melville scholars prove once again that the less one knows of the artist, the freer one is to experience the art.

"But there's no definitive proof, and there's been enormous resistance among Melville scholars to the idea."

The dean of Melville scholars, Hershel Parker, has written a biography that promises to be magisterial.

In addition, the collection showcases biographies and critical studies works produced by Melville scholars.

Despite the scarcity of documentary evidence, Melville scholars have obsessively pursued the minutiae of his life.

The professor has become a prominent Melville scholar, or Melvillian, as he calls himself.

For a Melville scholar an anniversary as important as the 150th of jumping ship could not go unchronicled.

He first attained prominence as a Melville scholar and has served as president of the Melville Society.