Moby-Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly EditionIn Moby Dick Melville set out to write a "mighty book" on "a mighty theme." The editors of this critical text affirm that he succeeded. Nevertheless, their prolonged examination of the novel reveals textual flaws and anomalies that help to explain Melville's fears that his great work was in some ways a hash or a botch. A lengthy historical note also gives a fresh account of Melville's earlier literary career and his working conditions as he wrote; it also analyzes the book's contemporary reception and outlines how it finally achieved fame. Other sections review theories of the book's genesis, detail the circumstances of its publication, and present documents closely relating to the story. This scholarly edition is based on collations of both editions published during Melville's lifetime, it adopts 185 revisions and corrections from the English edition and incorporates 237 emendations by the series editors. This is an Approved Text of the Center for Editions of American Authors (Modern Language Association of America). |
Contents
Loomings | 3 |
Chapter 5 | 29 |
Chapter 9 | 41 |
Chapter | 52 |
Biographical | 55 |
Nantucket | 63 |
Chapter | 86 |
Chapter | 92 |
Chapter 74 | 329 |
Chapter 76 | 336 |
The Prairie | 345 |
Chapter 81 | 351 |
Chapter 82 | 361 |
Chapter 84 | 367 |
Chapter 93 | 411 |
The Cassock | 419 |
Chapter 20 | 95 |
Chapter 22 | 102 |
The Advocate | 108 |
Chapter 26 | 115 |
Chapter | 120 |
Chapter 28 | 122 |
Chapter 30 | 129 |
Chapter 33 | 146 |
Chapter 35 | 154 |
The QuarterDeck Ahab and | 160 |
Chapter 37 | 167 |
Chapter 40 | 173 |
Chapter 42 | 188 |
Chapter 43 | 196 |
The Affidavit | 203 |
Chapter 46 | 211 |
Chapter 48 | 217 |
Chapter 49 | 226 |
ix | 260 |
Brit | 272 |
The Line | 278 |
Chapter 62 | 287 |
Chapter 65 | 298 |
The Blanket | 305 |
The Pequod meets the Jeroboam Her Story | 319 |
Chapter 97 | 426 |
The Decanter | 443 |
Chapter 103 | 452 |
Chapter 105 | 459 |
Chapter 107 | 466 |
The Cabin | 473 |
Chapter 111 | 482 |
The Gilder | 491 |
The WhaleWatch | 498 |
Midnight Aloft | 512 |
Chapter 125 | 520 |
Chapter 127 | 527 |
Chapter 129 | 534 |
Chapter 131 | 540 |
The Chase First | 546 |
Chapter 134 | 555 |
Chapter 135 | 563 |
Epilogue | 573 |
Discussions of Adopted Readings | 772 |
Report of LineEnd Hyphenation | 921 |
List of Substantive Variants | 929 |
RELATED DOCUMENTS | 955 |
The Hubbard Copy of The Whale | 1005 |
The Jones Copy of MobyDick and the Harper Whale Title Page | 1021 |
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Moby-Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition Herman Melville,G. Thomas Tanselle Limited preview - 1988 |
Common terms and phrases
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