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About the Editor Norton Critical Editions: American Realism & Reform Title Page Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Map: Principal Ports of Southeastern New England (Mid-1800s) Map: Melville’s Voyages and the Route of the Pequod, 1841–44 The Text of Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Contents of Moby-Dick Etymology Extracts Moby-Dick Emendations

Contexts

Hershel Parker • Glimpses of Melville as Performer Whaling and Whalecraft

Glossary of Nautical Terms John B. Putnam • Whaling and Whalecraft: A Pictorial Account Contemporary Engravings

Before Moby-Dick: International Controversy over Melville

Gansevoort Melville • [A Compliment to Tennesseans—and a Tribute to Andrew Jackson] Anonymous • [An American Sailor on the Missionaries] Anonymous • [A Bewitching Work] Captain E. Knight • [Gansevoort Melville on the Strategic Importance of Oregon] [Nathaniel Hawthorne] • [Melville’s “Freedom of View” (Not “Laxity of Principle”)] Anonymous • [A Unique Eyewitness] Margaret Fuller • [A Challenge to the Sewing Societies] Anonymous • [Happy Dog: Herman in the Typee Valley] Henry T. Cheever • [A Prurient Book, That Preys on the Imagination] Anonymous • [Melville’s Moral Obtuseness] William O. Bourne • 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, 8 June 1847 [The Tone Is Bad] [George Washington Peck] • [Melville as Sexual Braggart] William O. Bourne • [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[all] • 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”]

Sources of and Influences on Moby-Dick

Hershel Parker • Melville’s Reading and Moby-Dick: An Overview and a Bibliography J. N. Reynolds • Mocha Dick: Or the White Whale of the Pacific Herman Melville • [The Captain and Crew of the Acushnet on Melville’s Voyage] Owen Chase • [The Essex Wrecked by a Whale] Herman Melville • [Manuscript Notes on Owen Chase] Herman Melville • [Review of J. Ross Browne and Captain Ringbolt] The Original of Queequeg: Tupai Cupa’s Self-Portrait Hershel Parker • Moby-Dick and Melville’s Notes in His Shakespeare Herman Melville • 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

Criticism

Reviews of The Whale and Moby-Dick

Anonymous • [The Whole Powers of the Man] Anonymous • [A Credit to His Country] Anonymous • [An Ill-Compounded Mixture] Anonymous • [A Singular Medley] Anonymous • [People Who Delight in Mulligatawny] Anonymous • [A Most Extraordinary Work] Anonymous • [Fascination No Criticism Will Thwart] Anonymous • [No Fayaway in It. Alas!] Anonymous • [Not Worth the Money Asked for It] “H.” • [A Primitive Formation of Profanity and Indecency] Anonymous • [Not Lacking Much of Being a Great Work] [Horace Greeley?] • [Melville’s Whaliad, the Epic of Whaling] [Evert A. Duyckinck] • [A Friend Does His Christian Duty] Anonymous • [Too Much for Our Money] Anonymous • [Information: The Only Redeeming Point] A. Oakey Hall • [A Book Which Enhances Melville’s Fame] [George Ripley?] • [A Pregnant Allegory … Illustrating the Mystery of Human Life] [Augustus K. Gardner?] • [Fresh and Buoyant as Ever] Anonymous • [A “Many-Sided” Book] Edward Forbes • [Purposeless and Unequal Doings] Anonymous • [Talent Perverted] Anonymous • [A Strange, Wild Book] [William A. Butler] • [A Prose Epic on Whaling] Anonymous • [Pristine Powers and Old Extravagance] Anonymous • [A Most Agreeable and Exciting Work] Anonymous • [Mr. Melville Has Survived His Reputation] [William Gilmore Simms?] • [Grounds for a Writ de Lunatico against Melville] Francis Jacox • [A Strange, Wild, Furibund Thing]

Aftermath of Moby-Dick

Hershel Parker • Damned by Dollars: Moby-Dick and the Price of Genius

Belated Praise and the Melville Revival: 1879–1927

Gath [George Alfred Townsend] • [A Future President Explicates Moby-Dick] Anonymous • [A Marvellous Odyssey] Archibald MacMechan • The Best Sea Story Ever Written William Livingston Alden • [Let Us Have a Melville Society] Louis Becke • [The Strangest, Wildest, and Saddest Story] “A Wayfarer” • [A Deposition from a New Reader] Christopher Morley and H. M. Tomlinson • [Moby-Dick: “The Immense Book of the Sea”] Hershel Parker • Melville’s British Admirers: “Passing on the Torch”

Literary Criticism

Walter E. Bezanson • [The Dynamic in Moby-Dick: Ishmael’s Voices] Harrison Hayford • “Loomings”: Yarns and Figures in the Fabric

Moby-Dick in the Twenty-First Century

Greil Marcus • [A Single Phrase Can Bring a Hundred Pages Back] Timothy Marr • Kraken: Moby-Dick in Popular Culture Mary K. Bercaw Edwards and Wyn Kelley • Melville and the Spoken Word Robert K. Wallace • Moby-Dick and the Arts in the Early Twenty-First Century Jonathan Lethem • Moby-Dick Roger Payne • Melville’s Disentangling of Whales

Selected Bibliography

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