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9780205514083

Moby Dick (A Longman Critical Edition)

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  • ISBN13:

    9780205514083

  • ISBN10:

    0205514081

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-07-24
  • Publisher: Pearson
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Summary

This innovative, scholarly edition ofMoby Dickoffers unprecedented access to the revisions Herman Melville made to the original 1851 American version of the novel and illuminates all changes which scholars have made to create the classic that readers know today. The "fluid text" feature illuminates the personal, social, and cultural context of Melvillers"s writing process, right on the page, while also offering fresh contextual notes, illustrations, and other apparatus to make this the most reader-friendly - and therefore most teachable - edition available today.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgments

 

A Note on Text and Annotation

 

Moby Dick; or, The Whale

 

Explanatory Notes

 

Making Moby Dick

           

            Revision Narratives

           

            List of In-Text Revision Narratives

 

            Changes Not Discussed

 

            Textual Emendations

 

Melville’s Sources

 

Further Reading

 

Illustrations

 

Glossary of Nautical and Whaling Terms

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