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Title Herman Melville's Moby-Dick : a documentary volume / Jean-Francois Leroux, editor.

Publication Info. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2009.

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Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 349
Dictionary of literary biography complete online
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 349.
Dictionary of literary biography complete online.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2009. Available via World Wide Web.
Original Version Original: 476 p.
System Details Mode of access: Internet.
Subject Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.
American literature.
American literature.
Sea stories, American -- History and criticism.
Sea stories, American.
Whaling in literature.
Whaling in literature.
Added Author Leroux, Jean-François, 1972-
Gale Group.
ISBN 0787681679
9780787681678