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Below is a list of the works I consulted while writing this book. I am especially indebted to Andrew Delbanco's biography and its insights into the historical and political times in which Melville wrote. I was also deeply influenced by two Melville-related premieres: that of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's brilliant opera
Moby-Dick
in Dallas, Texas, in late April 2010, and, a week and a half later, that of Ric Burns's equally distinguished film
Into the Deep
on PBS's
American Experience
.
Delbanco, Andrew.
Melville: His World and Work
. New York: Knopf, 2005.
Heflin, Wilson.
Herman Melville's Whaling Years
. Edited by Mary K. Bercaw Edwards and Thomas Farel Heffernan. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004.
Hoare, Philip.
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
. New York: Ecco, 2010.
Lawrence, D. H.
Studies in Classic American Literature
. 1923; New York: Viking, 1964.
Leyda, Jay.
The Melville Log: A Documentary Life of Herman Melville, 1819–1891
. 2 vols. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951.
Melville, Herman.
Correspondence
. Edited by Lynn Horth. Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the New-berry Library, 1993.
———. “Hawthorne and His Mosses.” In
The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839–1860
. Edited by Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, G. Thomas Tanselle, et al. Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and the New-berry Library, 1987.
———.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
. 1851; New York: Penguin Books, 2001.
Metcalf, Eleanor Melville.
Herman Melville: Cycle and Epicycle
. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953.
Olson, Charles.
Call Me Ishmael
. 1947; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Parker, Hershel.
Herman Melville: A Biography
. 2 vols. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996 and 2002.
Philbrick, Nathaniel. “At Sea in the Tide Pool: The Whaling Town and America in Steinbeck's
The Winter of Our Discontent
and
Travels with Charley
.” In
Steinbeck and the Environment
. Edited by Susan F. Beegel, Susan Shillinglaw, and Wesley N. Tiffney Jr. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997.
———. “ ‘ Every Wave Is a Fortune': Nantucket Island and the Making of an American Icon.”
New England Quarterly,
September 1993.
———. Foreword to
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale,
by Herman Melville. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.
———. “Hawthorne, Maria Mitchell, and Melville's ‘After the Pleasure Party.' ”
ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance
37, no. 4 (1991).
———.
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship
Essex. New York: Viking, 2000.
———. “A Window on the Prey: The Hunter Sees a Human Face in Hemingway's ‘After the Storm' and Melville's ‘The Grand Armada.' ”
Hemingway Review
(Fall 1994).
ALSO BY NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
The Last Stand
Mayflower
Sea of Glory
In the Heart of the Sea
Away Off Shore
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