Madison R. D. The Essex and the Whale: Melville`s Leviathan Library and the Birth of Moby-Dick 9781440850073

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Автор: Madison R. D.
Название: The Essex and the Whale: Melville`s Leviathan Library and the Birth of Moby-Dick
ISBN: 9781440850073
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Классификация:

Литературоведение: с 1800 до 1900 г.

Литературоведение: художественная литература, романисты и прозаики

ISBN-10: 1440850070
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 275
Вес: 0.77 кг.
Дата издания: 28.03.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 239 x 158 x 28
Поставляется из: Англии
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The notorious 1820 sinking of the whaleship Essex inspired Herman Melvilles Moby-Dick, as recounted in Nathaniel Philbricks bestselling book In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex--now a major motion picture. But how exactly did Melville transmute the historic tragedy of the Essex into what is arguably the Great American Novel? Here, for the first time, R.D. Madison collects together Melvilles personal library of whaling and whale-lore into a single volume and presents these primary sources in a way that readers can readily see how a horrific whaling tragedy became a literary masterpiece.

But where did Moby-Dick begin? Prompted by sailor-author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Melville supplemented his own firsthand experience as a whaleman in the South Pacific with libraries of books that he swum through to create his whaling masterpiece. Scholars and lay readers alike have long wondered how he did it, and over the past 60 years, a very tight theory of inspiration and creation has emerged. It is very likely wrong.

This volume gathers together for the first time all of the main texts that Melville encountered, including the accounts of the unique sinking of the Essex by a sperm whale that provided the climax for Moby-Dick. Melville scholar R. D. Madison examines what critics have said about Melvilles response to the sinking and offers the challenging thesis that Melville did not even begin the book at all until spurred on by Dana in the spring of 1850.

The Essex and the Whale: Melville`s Leviathan Library and the Birth of Moby-Dick, Madison R. D.