19C American Fiction - Reading Moby-Dick: ENG 3323

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Research Help for Reading Moby-Dick

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The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville by Kevin J. Hayes
ISBN: 9780521854801
Publication Date: 2007
Offers readings of Melville's masterpiece, but it also sets out the key themes, contexts, and critical reception of his entire oeuvre.
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville by Robert S. Levine (Editor)
ISBN: 9781107687912
Publication Date: 2013-12-02
Provides timely, critical essays on Melville's classic works and a complete overview of his career.
Dive Deeper: Journeys with Moby-Dick by George Cotkin
ISBN: 9780199855759
Publication Date: 2012-08-01
Supplies easy-to-follow plot points for each of the novel's 135 sections before taking up a salient phrase, image, or idea in each for further exploration.

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Contains citations (and some full-text) to scholarly articles on literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, and much more.