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The Whale and His Captors; Or, the Whaleman's Adventures

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
264 Seiten
Englisch
University Press of New Englanderschienen am12.06.2018
The Whale and His Captors is an important firsthand account of the golden age of American whaling, chronicling both its lore and science as practiced from the inception of the fishery to the mid-1800s. Late in the composition of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville found inspiration in Cheever and his writings that would provide the final flourishes for one of America's classic novels. After exhausting other whaling sources-Beale, Scoresby, Bennett, and Browne-Melville turned to Cheever for chapter titles and organization as well as passages that helped shape, define, and elucidate his great work.This is the first scholarly edition of The Whale and His Captors, accompanied by an introduction and apparatus that clearly elucidates Cheever's treatise on whaling and demonstrates how his writings contributed both to the course of American literature and to our burgeoning understanding of literature's engagement with the natural world.mehr

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KlappentextThe Whale and His Captors is an important firsthand account of the golden age of American whaling, chronicling both its lore and science as practiced from the inception of the fishery to the mid-1800s. Late in the composition of Moby-Dick, Herman Melville found inspiration in Cheever and his writings that would provide the final flourishes for one of America's classic novels. After exhausting other whaling sources-Beale, Scoresby, Bennett, and Browne-Melville turned to Cheever for chapter titles and organization as well as passages that helped shape, define, and elucidate his great work.This is the first scholarly edition of The Whale and His Captors, accompanied by an introduction and apparatus that clearly elucidates Cheever's treatise on whaling and demonstrates how his writings contributed both to the course of American literature and to our burgeoning understanding of literature's engagement with the natural world.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-5126-0265-4
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2018
Erscheinungsdatum12.06.2018
ReiheSeafaring America
Seiten264 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 18 mm
Gewicht363 g
Artikel-Nr.44930394
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GenreRomane Taschenbuch

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgments Introduction A Note on the Text THE WHALE AND HIS CAPTORS (1850) Preface Introduction Coral Island of Rimatara Raising and Cutting-In Whales New Zealand Cruising Ground The Whale's Physiology and Natural History Different Cruising Grounds and Northwest Whaling The Whale's Biography and Incidents in the Capture Atlantic Ocean Mammoths and Monsters Episodes in the Fortunes of Whalemen Conquest and Disposal of a Bull Whale Authentic Tragedies and Perils of the Whaling Service Yarns from the Experience of Old Whalemen Peculiar Vocabulary and Hazards of Whalemen Remarkable Events in the Annals of Whaling Claims and Advantages of the Sabbath in a Whale Ship A Plea in Behalf of the Sabbath for Whalemen Nearing Home and Analogies from the Sea Knitting Up the Lessons of the Voyage at Its Close Notes 1853 Additions Note F, continued Appendix: Leaves from the Log of a Practiced Whaleman APPENDIX TO THE SEAFARING AMERICA EDITION: CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS AND COMMENTARY "The Vicious Appetite of a Sailor": Review of Typee in the New York Evangelist (1846) "The Captain's Cruel Lance": Specimen Passage from The Christian Parlor Book (1849) "Contemplative Eye and Christian Heart": Review of The Whale and His Captors in the New York Evangelist (1849) "The Mystery of the Whale Ship": Review of The Whale and His Captors in the Literary World (1850) "Harper & Brothers' Latest Publications": Advertisement in The Literary World (1850) "Almost Marvellous": Scoresby's Preface to The Whaleman's Adventures (1850) "Purely Accidental": Scoresby's Note on the Essex (1850) "This Glorious Bird": Excerpts from The Island World of the Pacific (1851) "The Bold Polynesian Romance": A Note from Life in the Sandwich Islands (1851) "The Judgment Day Will Hold Him Liable": Review of Moby-Dick in the New York Independent (1851) Afterword: "The Cruel Harpoon" and the "Honorable Lamp": The Awakening of an Environmental Consciousness in Theodore Cheever's The Whale and His Captorsmehr

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HENRY T. CHEEVER (1814-1897) was born and educated in Maine. In the early 1840s he voyaged as a passenger on the whaling ship Commodore Preble. Cheever published The Whale and His Captors a year or two before Herman Melville's Moby-Dick appeared in 1851. ROBERT D. MADISON is professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy and an editor of Northwestern-Newberry editions of the writings of Herman Melville.
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