Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!
"Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! or, The Crowing of the Nobel Cock Beneventano" is an 1853 short story by the American writer Herman Melville. It was first published in the December 1853 issue of Harper's Magazine, the same month the second installment of "Bartleby, the Scrivener" appeared in Putnam's.[1] The story remained uncollected until 1922, when Princeton University Press included it in The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches.
| Author | Herman Melville |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Short story |
| Publisher | Harper's Magazine |
Publication date | December 1853 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 46 |
Most scholars agree that this story satirizes Transcendentalist philosophy, in particular Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.[2][3]
References
- Warner Berthoff, Great Short Works of Herman Melville (HarperCollins, 1969), p. 75.
- Egbert S. Oliver, "'Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!' and Transcendental Hocus-Pocus" (The New England Quarterly, June 1948). https://www.jstor.org/stable/361749.
- L. J. Budd and E. H. Cady, On Melville: The Best from American Literature (Duke University Press, 1988), p. 116.
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