Why Read Moby-Dick? (12 page)

 

 

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