Contributor
Leroux, Jean-Francois, 1972- editor.
Imprint:Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2009.
Description1 online resource.
Note:Herman Melville -- Moby-Dick -- Backgrounds to Moby-Dick -- New Bedford and Nantucket -- Melville at sea -- The perils of whaling and the sinking of the Essex -- The legend of Mocha Dick -- The literature of the sea -- A voyage to England -- London and the continent -- The composition of Moby-Dick -- Loomings: the whaling novel -- Soundings: Hawthorne and the Berkshires -- Cutting in and trying out: the cetological chapters -- Breaching: bringing Moby-Dick to press -- The whale and Moby-Dick -- The expurgated English edition -- The flawed American edition -- Reviews of the whale: the English edition, 1851-1852 -- Reviews of Moby-Dick: the American edition, 1851-1852 -- Burial, 1852-1889 -- Turn of the century, centennial, and revival, 1892-1923 -- Moby-Dick as icon -- Moby Dick at the movies -- Illustrating Moby-Dick -- Melville's masterpiece and Twentieth-century art.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Fact and fiction, fate and free will, time and eternity, all would become intertwined, like the "complicated coils" of whale-lines, in Melville's creation. The study of Melville's sources, relationships, compositional method, and reception, blending as it does art and life provides one way of communing with his insight into both. This volume aims to facilitate such study by pointing to the raw materials that Melville transmuted into poetry.
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