Research Catalog

Title

Moby-Dick / Herman Melville ; edited by Hershel Parker, Harrison Hayford ; pictorial materials prepared by John B. Putnam.

Author

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

Publication

New York : Norton, c2002.

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Additional Authors

• Hayford, Harrison.
• Parker, Hershel.

Description

xv, 726 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

A Norton critical edition

Uniform Title

Moby Dick

Alternative Title

Moby Dick

Subject

• Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character) > Fiction
• Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
• Mentally ill > Fiction
• Ship captains > Fiction
• Whales > Fiction
• Whaling > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Adventure fiction.
• Adventure stories.
• Allegories.
• Epic literature.
• Fiction
• Fiction.
• Psychological fiction
• Psychological fiction.
• Sea stories
• Sea stories.

Note

• "An authoritative text before Moby Dick: international controversy, reviews and letters by Melville, analogues and sources, reviews of Moby-Dick, criticism."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 725-726).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• [Pt. 1] The text of Moby-Dick; or, the whale -- Contents of Moby-Dick -- Moby-Dick.
• [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
• [Pt. 3] Criticism -- Reviews of Moby-Dick -- Posthumous praise and the Melville revival : 1893-1927 -- A handful of critical challenges.

ISBN

0393972836 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2001042716

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library