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Whaling

Dolin, Eric Jay. Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007.

Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. Penguin Books, 2000.

Philbrick, Nathaniel. Why Read Moby-Dick? Penguin Books, 2011.

Ujhazy, Maria. Herman Melville's World of Whaling. Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1982.

 

 

Essays

Lawrence, D.H. Herman Melville's Moby Dick." Studies in Classic American Literature.  Viking Press, 1964.

Articles

 

Eldridge, Herbert G. ""Careful Disorder": The Structure of Moby-Dick." American Literature 39.2 (1967): 145-62. Web.

 

Jaffé, David. "Some Origins of Moby-Dick: New Finds in an Old Source." American Literature29.3 (1957): 263-77. Web.

 

Stoll, Elmer E. "Symbolism in Moby-Dick." Journal of the History of Ideas 12.3 (1951): 440-65. Web.

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