Moby Dick

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is often considered the greatest American novel - a vast epic that combines deep philosophy and high adventure as well as rich comedy and profound tragedy. //////////////////////////////////////////////The book and author. On Moby-Dick / Joseph Csicsila -- Biography of Herman Melville / Jonathan D. Wright -- Critical contexts. Sailor, writer, metaphysician / Mary K. Bercaw Edwards ; The critics and the whale / Brian Yothers ; Critical pluralism and Melville's Moby-Dick / Robert C. Evans ; Miriam Coffin and Moby-Dick / Robert C. Evans and Kelhi D. DePace -- Critical readings. The earliest reactions to Moby-Dick : a comprehensive overview / Sarah Fredericks, Stephen Paul Bray, and Robert C. Evans ; "New" responses to Moby-Dick in the nineteenth century / Robert C. Evans ; Melville's "The town-ho's story" and the merits of historical formalism / Robert C. Evans ; The limits of Ishmael's reading in Moby-Dick / Robert Klevay ; Ishmael's doubts and intuitions : religion in Moby-Dick / Brian Yothers ; Moby-Dick and nineteenth-century natural history / Jonathan A. Cook ; "We account the whale immortal" : fantasies of ecological abundance and discourses of extinction in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick / Jennifer Schell ; Humor, comic personification, and the "pathetic fallacy" in Moby-Dick / Robert C. Evans ; Teaching Melville and the arts to creative students in a new century / Robert K. Wallace.