Herman Melville's Moby-Dick / Moby-Dick edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. - New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism : Chelsea House, c2007. - 86 p. : 25 cm. - Bloom's modern critical interpretations .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to Moby-dick / Introduction to Moby Dick / Cannibalism, slavery, and self-consumption in Moby Dick / The question of race in Moby-Dick / A Jonah's warning to America in Moby-Dick / "Its wood could only be American!" : Moby-Dick and the antebellum popular culture / The madness of Ahab / Call me Ishmael, or how to make double-talk speak / Call me Ishmael / The burial of the dead / Moby-Dick as revolution / Alfred Kazin -- Patrick McGrath -- Homer B. Pettey -- Fred V. Bernard -- Carolyn L. Karcher -- David S. Reynolds -- Henry Nash Smith -- Carolyn Porter -- Charles Olson -- Christopher Sten -- John Bryant.



0791093638 (hardcover) 9780791093634 (hardcover)

2006031155


Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.


Sea stories, American--History and criticism.

813.3/ H551