A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick Edited by Michael J. Davey Routledge Taylor &. Francis Group NEW YORK AND LONDON
Contents Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgments ix x Introduction I I: Contexts Contextual Overview 9 Melville's Career and the Writing of Moby-Dick 9 Melville and Antebellum America 20 Chronology 28 Contemporary Documents 34 From Owen Chase, The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex (1821) 34 From Herman Melville, "Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1850) 38 From Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Custom-House Sketch" (1850) 40 Transcendentalism 41 From Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" (1841) 44 From Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836) 45 From Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature: "Chapter IV. Language" (1836) 46 Selected Letters 48 From Melville to Evert A. Duyckinck (March 3, 1848) 48 From Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne (April 16, 1851) 49
vi From Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne ([June 1?], 1851) 51 From Melville to Nathaniel Hawthorne (November 1851) 52 From Melville to Sarah Huyler Morewood (September 1851) 53 2: Interpretations Critical History 57 Early Critical Reception 66 Introduction 66 From review of Typee, United States Nautical Magazine (March 1846) 66 From review of Typee, Critic [London], (March 1846) 67 From review of Redburn, Bentley's Miscellany [London], (November 1849) 68 From review of Redburn, New York Sunday Times and Noah's Weekly Messenger (November 18, 1849) 69 From review of Moby-Dick, New York Evangelist (November 20, 1851) 69 From review of Moby-Dick, Boston Post (November 20, 1851) 70 From review of Moby-Dick, Albion [New York], (November 22, 1851) 71 From Evert A. Duyckinck, review of Moby-Dick, Literary World [New York], (November 22,1851) 72 From review of Moby-Dick, Literary Gazette [London], (December 6, 1851) 74 Modern Criticism 75 The Melville Revival 75 From E. L. Grant Watson, review of Melville's Moby-Dick (1920) 75 From Frank Jewett Mather, Jr., "Herman Melville" (1919) 77 From Raymond M. Weaver, "The Centennial of Herman Melville" (1919) 78 From Carl Van Doren, "Mr. Melville's Moby-Dick" (1924) 79 From H. M. Tomlinson, "A Clue to Moby-Dick" (1921) 80 Moby-Dick Rising: Melville Criticism 1919-1970 82 From William Charvat, "Melville and the Common Reader" (1958) 82 From Walter E. Bezanson, "Moby-Dick: Work of Art" (1953) 83 From Merton M. Sealts, Jr., "Melville and Emerson's Rainbow" (1982) 85 From Leon Howard, "The Influence of Carlyle" (1987) 88 From Henry A. Murray, "In Nomine Diaboli" (1951) 90
From J. A. Ward, "The Function of the Cetological Chapters in Moby-Dick" (1956) 92 From Robert M. Greenberg, "Cetology: Center of Multiplicity and Discord in Moby-Dick" (1981) 95 From Thomas Werge, "Moby-Dick and the Calvinist Tradition" (1969) 96 Moby-Dick at the Millennium 98 From Frank Shuffelton, "Going Through the Long Vaticans: Melville's 'Extracts' in Moby-Dick" (1983) 98 From Mark Niemeyer, "Moby-Dick and the Spirit of Revolution" (1994) 100 From John Alvis, "Moby-Dick and Melville's Quarrel with America" (1993) 103 From David S. Reynolds, " 'Its wood could only be American!': Moby-Dick and Antebellum Popular Culture" (1992) 105 From Sheila Post-Lauria, "Originality: The Case of Moby-Dick" (1996) 107 From Elizabeth Schultz, "The Sentimental Subtext of Moby-Dick: Melville's Response to the'world of Woe'" (1996) 109 From Leland S. Person Jr., "Melville's Cassock: Putting on Masculinity in Moby-Dick" (1994) 113 From Sterling Stuckey, "The Tambourine in Glory: African Culture and Melville's Art" (1998) 115 From Joseph Andriano, "Brother to Dragons: Race and Evolution in Moby-Dick" (1996) 119 From Paul Giles, " 'Bewildering Intertanglement': Melville's Engagement with British Culture" (1998) 122 3: Key Passages Introduction 129 Principal Biblical Allusions 129 Chapter 1: Loomings Chapter 3: The Spouter-Inn Chapter 9: The Sermon Chapter 10: A Bosom Friend Chapter 16: The Ship Chapter 23: The Lee Shore Chapter 26: Knights and Squires Chapter 27: Knights and Squires Chapter 28: Ahab Chapter 36: The Quarter-Deck Chapter 41: Moby Dick Chapter 42: The Whiteness of the Whale Chapter 44: The Chart 131 134 137 140 142 144 145 147 149 151 153 155 158 v i i
viii Chapter 70: The Sphynx 159 Chapter 95: The Cassock 161 Chapter 96: The Try-Works 162 Chapter 99: The Doubloon 165 Chapter 114: The Gilder 169 Chapter 119: The Candles 170 Chapter 132: The Symphony 171 Chapter 135: The Chase - Third Day 173 Epilogue 176 4: Further Reading Introduction 181 Primary Works and Letters 181 Biographies 182 Journals and Electronic Media Devoted to Melville 182 Recommended General Secondary and References Sources on Melville and Moby-Dick 183 Recommended Essays on Melville and Moby-Dick 183 Recommended Book-Length Secondary Sources 185 Index 187