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Moby-Dick: An authoritative text;

Author: Herman Melville; Harrison Hayford; Hershel Parker
Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton [1967]
Series: A Norton critical edition
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : [1st ed.]View all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Psychological fiction
Sea stories
Adventure fiction
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
Moby-Dick.
New York, W.W. Norton [1967]
(OCoLC)652035540
Named Person: Herman Melville
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Herman Melville; Harrison Hayford; Hershel Parker
OCLC Number: 953128
Description: xviii, 728 p. illus. 20 cm.
Contents: Forward --
The text of moby-dick --
Reviews and letters by Melville --
Analogues and sources --
Criticism --
An intellectual chowder / Evert A. Duyckinck --
A pregnant allegory / George Ripley --
A prose epic on whaling / William A. Butler --
Cause for a writ de lunatico / Anonymous --
Maniacal style and furibund story / William Harrison Ainsworth --
A marvellous odyssey / Anonymous --
Melville's flawed masterpiece, and his decline / William P. Trent --
Melville's finest performance / W. Clark Russell --
A group of minor fiction writiers / William J. Long --
The originality of moby-dick / Carl Van Doren --
Melville's composite achievement / Raymond Weaver --
A deposition from a new reader / A. Wayfarer --
Melville's enduring reputation in England / J. St. Loe Strachey --
Execrable English and fantastic grandeur / Leonard Woolf --
Moby-dick as poetic epic / Lewis Mumford --
Moby-dick vs. Huckleberry Finn / Bernard DeVoto --
Melville: not even a minor master / Ludwig Lewisohn --
Melville's quest for the ultimate / Willard Thorp --
Melville's tragically great hero / Stanley Geist --
Ishmael vs. Ahab / William Ellery Sedgwick --
Ahad and his fool / Charles Olson --
Moby-dick: work of art / Walter E. Bezanson --
Moby-dick as symbolic voyage / Charles Feidelson Jr. --
The try-works / R.W.B. Lewis --
Comic vision and technique in moby-dick / Edward Rosenberry --
Moby-dick as tragedy / Richard B. Sewall --
Characterization in moby-dick / Warner Berthoff --
The composition of moby-dick / Leon Howard.
Series Title: A Norton critical edition
Responsibility: Reviews and letters by Melville; Analogues and sources; Criticism. Edited by Harrison Hayford [and] Hershel Parker. Pictorial materials prepared by John B. Putnam.

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