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Moby-Dick

Contents

  • New: Preface
  • New: Acknowledgments
  • MAP: Melville’s Voyage and the Route of the Pequod
  • MAP: Principal Ports of Southeastern New England (mid-1880s)
  • The Text of Moby-Dick
  • New: Melville’s Reading and Moby Dick: An Overview and a Bibliography
    • Whaling and Whalecraft
    • Glossary of Nautical Terms
    • John B. Putnam - Whaling and Whalecraft: A Pictorial Account
    • Gansevoort Melville - A Scene at the "Hermitage"
    • Anonymous - [An American Sailor on the Missionaries]
    • [Nathaniel Hawthorne] - [Melville’s "Freedom of View"]
    • Anonymous - [A Unique Eyewitness]
    • [Margaret Fuller] - [A Challenge to the Sewing Societies]
    • Anonymous - [Happy Dog: Herman in the Typee Valley]
    • H[enry T.] C[heever] - [A Prurient Book, That Preys on the imagination]
    • Anonymous - [Melville’s Moral Obtuseness]
    • Anonymous - Typee: The Traducer of Missions
    • Anonymous - [Melville and Missionary Fund-Raising-A Review of Omoo]
    • [Thurlow Weed?] - Who Reads an American Book?
    • Anonymous - [Melville’s Spite against Religion and Its Missionaries]
    • [B.] - [Polynesian Cannibalism vs. American Slavery]
    • Horace Greeley - [Up the Lakes, June 8, 1847 (The Tone is Bad)]
    • G[eorge] W[ashington] P[eck] - [Melville as Sexual Braggart]
    • W[illiam] O. B[ourne] - [Traducer of Loftier and Better Men]
    • William O. Bourne - [Melville’s Encouraging of "Rum and Romanism"]
    • Anonymous - [The Total Failure of Protestant Missionaries]
    • E. B. H. - Catholic and Protestant Missions
    • [William Gilmore Simms?] - [Review of Mardi]
    • Anonymous - [Civilized Bodies, Barbarous Souls]
    • Anonymous - [The Improving Condition of "Live Cargo"]
    • Anonymous - [A Magisterial Caution from "Maga"]
    • Anonymous - [The "Middle Passage" for the Irish]
    • Anonymous - [Melville: Prejudiced, Incompetent, and Truthless]
    • Anonymous - [Unfortunate Mr. Melville]
    • [Evert A. Duyckinck] - [A Defense against the "Anti-Popery Mania"]
    • [Evert A. Duyckinck] - [White-Jacket and a Warning to Melville]
    • Anonymous - [A Jibe at "The Essential Dignity of Man"]
  • Criticism
  • Reviews and Letters by Melville
    • New: Two Reviews in the Literary World
    • Etchings of a Whaling Cruise
    • Hawthorne and his Mosses
  • Melville’s Letters at the Time of Moby-Dick
    • To Richard H. Dana, Jr., May 1, 1850
    • To Richard Bentley, June 27, 1850
    • To Evert A. Duyckinck, December 13, 1850
    • To Evert A. Duyckinck, February 12, 1851
    • To Nathaniel Hawthorne, [April 16?], 1851
    • To Nathaniel Hawthorne, Early May, 1851
    • To Nathaniel Hawthorne, June 29, 1851
    • To Richard Bentley, July 20, 1851
    • To Nathaniel Hawthorne, July 22, 1851
    • To Sarah Huyler Morewood, September 12 [or 19?], 1851
    • To Evert A. Duyckinck, November 7, 1851
    • To Nathaniel Hawthorne, November 17, 1851
    • To Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, January 8, 1852
  • Analogues and Sources
    • Ralph Waldo Emerson - [Journal Entry on a White Whale]
    • J. N. Reynolds - Mocha Dick: Or the white whale of the Pacific
    • Owen Chase - [The Essex Wrecked by a Whale]
    • Herman Melville - [Manuscript Notes on Owen Chase]
    • David H. Battenfeld - The Source for the Hymn in Moby-Dick
    • Howard P. Vincent - [Sources of "The Try-Works"]
    • New: Geoffrey Sanborn - The Name of the Devil: Melville’s Other "Extracts" for Moby-Dick
    • New: Steven Olsen-Smith [Melville’s Poetic Use of Thomas Beale’s
    • Natural History of the Sperm Whale]
  • Reviews of Moby-Dick
    • New: Anonymous - [A Credit to His Country]
    • New: Anonymous - [An Ill-Compounded Mixture]
    • New: Anonymous - A Singular Medley
    • New: Anonymous - [People Who Delight in Mulligatawny]
    • New: Anonymous - [A Most Extraordinary Work]
    • New: Anonymous - [Fascination No Criticism Will Thwart]
    • New: Anonymous - [Not Worth the Money Asked for It]
    • New: "H." - [A Primitive Formation of Profanity and Indecency]
    • New: Anonymous - [Not Lacking Much of Being a Great Work]
    • New: Anonymous - [Not Worth the Money Asked for It]
    • New: [George Ripley] - [Melville's Whaliad, the Epic of Whaling]
    • New: [Evert A. Duyckincki] - [A Friend Does His Christian Duty]
    • New: Anonymous - [Too Much for Our Money]
    • New: Anonymous - [Information: The Only Redeeming Point]
    • New: Anonymous - [A "Many-Sided" Book]
    • [William A. Butler] - [A Prose Epic on Whaling]
    • New: Anonymous - [Pristine Powers and Old Extravagance]
    • New: Anonymous - [A Most Agreeable and Exciting Work]
    • New: Anonymous - [Mr. Melville Has Survived His Reputation]
    • [William Gilmore Simms?] - [Grounds for a Writ de lunatico against Melville]
  • Posthumous Praise and the Melville Revival: 1893-1927
    • Anonymous - [A Marvelous Odyssey]
    • New: Archibald MacMechan - The Best Sea Story Ever Written
    • New: William Livingston Alden - [Let Us Have a Melville Society]
    • New: Louis Becke - [The Strangest, Wildest, and Saddest Story] "A Wayfarer"
    • [H. W. Massingham?] - [A Deposition from a New Reader]
    • New: Christopher Morley and H. M. Tomlinson - [Moby-Dick: "The Immense Book of the Sea"]
    • Anonymous - [A Marvelous Odyssey]
    • New: William Faulkner - [I Wish I Had Written That]
  • A Handful of Critical Challenges
    • Walter E. Bezanson - Moby-Dick: Work of Art
    • New: Harrison Hayford - "Loomings": Yarns and Figures in the Fabric
    • New: Paul Brodtkorb, Jr. - [Selfhood and Others]
    • New: Harrison Hayford - Unnecessary Duplicates: A Key to the Writing of Moby-Dick
    • New: Camille Paglia - [Moby-Dick as Sexual Protest]
    • New: John Wenke - Ahab and "the Larger, Darker, Deeper Part"
    • New: Biographical Cross-Light
    • Hershel Parker - "Damned by Dollars": Moby-Dick and the Price of Genius
  • Selected Bibliography