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" Moby-Dick / "
Herman Melville ; edited by Hershel Parker, Harrison Hayford ; pictorial materials prepared by John B. Putnam.
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BL
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874593
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Melville, Herman,1819-1891
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Moby-Dick /\ Herman Melville ; edited by Hershel Parker, Harrison Hayford ; pictorial materials prepared by John B. Putnam.
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Second edition.
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New York :: Norton,, [2002]
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, ©2002
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A Norton critical edition
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xv, 726 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm.
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0393972836
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: 9780393972832
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"150th anniversary ed."--Cover.
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"An authoritative text before Moby Dick: international controversy, reviews, and letters by Melville, analogues and sources, reviews of Moby-Dick, criticism."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 725-726).
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| Contents
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[Pt. 1] The text of Moby-Dick; or, the whale -- Contents of Moby-Dick -- Moby-Dick.
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[Pt. 2] Contexts -- Melville's reading and Moby-Dick : an overview and a bibliography -- Whaling and whalecraft -- Before Moby-Dick : international controversy over Melville -- Reviews and letters by Melville -- Analogues and sources.
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[Pt. 3] Criticism -- Reviews of Moby-Dick -- Posthumous praise and the Melville revival : 1893-1927 -- A handful of critical challenges -- Biographical cross-light.
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"For this Sesquicentennial Norton Critical Edition, the Northwestern-Newberry text of Moby-Dick has been generously footnoted to include dozens of biographical discoveries, mainly from Hershel Parker's work on his two-volume biography of Melville. A section of "Whaling and Whalecraft" features prose and graphics by John B. Putnam, a sample of contemporary whaling engravings, as well as, new to this edition, an engraving of Tupai Cupa, the real-life inspiration for the character of Queequeg. Evoking Melville's fascination with the fluidity of categories like savagery and civilization, the image of Tupai Cupa fittingly introduces "Before Moby-Dick: International Controversy over Melville," a new section that documents the ferocity of religions, political, and sexual hostility toward Melville in reaction to his early books, beginning with Typee in 1846. The image of Tupai Cupa also evokes Melville's interest in the mystery of self-identity and the possibility of knowing another person's "queenly personality" (Chapter 119). That theme (focused on Melville, Ishmael, and Ahab) is pursued in "A Handful of Critical Challenges," from Walter E. Bezanson's classic centennial study through Harrison Hayford's meditation on "Loomings" and recent essays by Camille Paglia and John Wenke. In "Reviews and Letters by Melville," a letter has been redated and a wealth of new biographical material has been added to the footnotes, notably to Melville's "Hawthorne and His Mosses." "Analogues and Sources" retains classic pieces by J.N. Reynolds and Owen Chase, as well as new findings by Geoffrey Sanborn and Steven Olsen-Smith. In "Reviews of Moby-Dick" emphasizes the ongoing religious hostility toward Melville and highlights new discoveries, such as the first-known Scottish review of The Whale. "Posthumous Praise and the Melville Revival: 1893-1927" collects belated, enthusiastic praise up through that of William Faulkner. "Biographical Cross-Light" is Hershel Parker's somber look at what writing Moby-Dick cost Melville and his family."--Publisher's website.
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"Moby Dick (1851) is an epic tale of the conflict between man and his fate. Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to destroy the great white whale that tore off his leg leads the Pequod and its crew to disaster. Melville's extraordinary narrative defies c1assification: it teems with ideas and imagery and the passion of its author."--Jacket.
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Melville, Herman,1819-1891., Moby Dick.
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Melville, Herman,1819-1891, Moby Dick.
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Melville, Herman.
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Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character), Fiction.
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Mentally ill, Fiction.
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Ship captains, Fiction.
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Whales, Fiction.
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Whaling ships, Fiction.
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Whaling, Fiction.
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Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
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Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character), Fiction.
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Mentally ill, Fiction.
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Mentally ill.
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Ship captains, Fiction.
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Ship captains.
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Whales, Fiction.
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Whales.
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Whaling ships, Fiction.
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Whaling ships.
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Whaling, Fiction.
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Whaling.
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Moby Dick (Melville, Herman)
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.3
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| LC Classification
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PS2384.M6 2002
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| NLM classification
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18.06bcl
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18.06.bcl
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I712.074clc
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I712.44clc
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Hayford, Harrison
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Parker, Hershel
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