Moby-Dick

Herman Melville, Hester Blum (The Pennsylvania State University)

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English

Worlds Classics
01 August 2022

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Oxford World's Classics

""It will be a strange sort of a book, tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard as sap from a frozen maple tree;--& to cook the thing up, one must needs throw in a little fancy.... Yet I mean to give the truth of the thing, spite of this.""Moby-Dick has a monumental reputation. Less well known are the novel's unexpectedly weird, funny, tantalizing, messy, and wondrous moments. Narrator Ishmael, along with the whaleship Pequod's other ""meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways"", is beguiled into joining Captain Ahab in his vengeful pursuit of the white whale that ""dismasted"" him. But along the way, Ishmael takes the reader along many a detour into variegated ways of knowing. In a tone ""strangely compounded of fun and fury"", Moby-Dick brings outlandish curiosity to bear on the multitudinous, oceanic scale of our diverse world.

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FeaturesEdited by a leading Melville scholar, past president of the Herman Melville Society, and a participant in the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan, the world's last surviving wooden whaleship and the sister ship to the Acushnet, in which Melville sailedIntroduction highlights a little-known annotation in Hawthorne's copy of Moby-DickAn edition for the twenty-first century, one that recognizes that each generation of readers will remake classic novels anewIntroduces readers to the experience of reading the book, interpretative questions, and its place in the history of the American novelNew to this EditionUpdated explanatory notes reflect the increased access to information that contemporary readers haveNew introduction focuses on the novel's elasticity and continued relevance for twenty-first-century readers, with attention to its queerness and its meditations on race, power, and disabilityABOUT THE SERIESFor over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

By: Herman Melville
Edited by: Hester Blum (The Pennsylvania State University)
Imprint: Worlds Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 398g
ISBN: 9780198853695
ISBN 10: 0198853696
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 01 August 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Note on the text Selected Bibliography Herman Melvolle Chronology MOBY-DICK; OR, THE WHALE Appendix: Melville's Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne Explanatory Notes

Hester Blum is Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives (2008) and The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration (2019), as well as several edited volumes. Blum is past president of the Herman Melville Society, and her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She participated in the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan, the world's last surviving wooden whaleship and the sister ship to the Acushnet, in which Melville sailed.