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Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
This book investigates the highly engaging topic of the literary and cultural significance of 'sailor talk.' The central argument is that sailor talk offers a way of rethinking the figure…
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Offers an examination of Melville’s ‘borrowing’. This book investigates the interplay between spoken sources and written narratives. It examines how Melville altered original stories, and questions his truthfulness about his…
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This book investigates the highly engaging topic of the literary and cultural significance of ‘sailor talk.’ The central argument is that sailor talk offers a way of rethinking the figure…
This is an excellent contribution to Melville scholarship, challenging long-held assumptions regarding his early works. Scholars as well as students will welcome it as an indispensable addition to the study…
Andrew W. German
As America's oldest merchant ship still afloat and the only wooden survivor of the once-vital whaling industry, Mystic Seaport Museum's flagship vessel, the Charles W. Morgan, tells a complex story--one…
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A collection of essays presented at the sesquicentenary Moby-Dick conference
The twenty-one essays collected in Ungraspable Phantom are from an international conference held in 2001 celebrating the 150th anniversary of…
