Moby Dick

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4 Find Periodical articles for additional details
5 Resources for specific topics
6 Examine Literary Criticism of Moby Dick
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Introduction

"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!" - Moby Dick, Herman Melville

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Get an overview with reference sources

Reference Books in the Garver Room

REF 809.3 EN193 v.2 Encyclopedia of the Novel
REF 810.3 Ox21 v.3 The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature 
REF 810.9 Am3 III American Writers
REF 823.09 C86 2000 v.5 Critical Survey of Long Fiction

Read about Herman Melville and his work in Literature Online LION
Read about Herman Melville in Biography Resource Center

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The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

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Resources for specific topics

Try WorldBook Online for historical maps an other information about some of the places that the Pequod visited, such as Nantucket, New Bedford, and other places.
For topics having to do with whales, whaling, and whaling ships, try these searches in the library catalog.

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Examine Literary Criticism of Moby Dick

In Print (Gale series that include a discussion of this work)

Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, volume(s) 3:329, 332-55, 357, 359-64, 366-71, 373-8, 380-5; 12:249-322; 29:315-17, 324-27, 329, 331-32, 334, 337-38, 340, 343, 349, 354-57, 362, 364-65, 367, 369, 371-72, 378-79; 45:197, 204, 206, 210, 212-13, 228-9, 231, 235, 243-7, 251-2, 254; 49:376-8, 391, 402, 407, 409-10, 414, 416, 421; 91:3-6, 9-10, 18, 21, 24, 28-34, 41-7, 50-1, 53-6, 68, 74, 81, 88-90, 93, 111, 113, 115, 121, 134, 180-81, 193, 198, 204, 206, 212-13, 217-20; 93:187-88, 203, 222; 123:186-87, 190, 192, 196, 200, 204, 211-12, 230, 232, 241, 251-52, 256; 157:65, 69, 72, 75, 79, 84-85, 89, 100, 106, 108, 110-12, 145-46, 149-53, 159, 161, 209
Reference Guide to American Literature (St. James Press, an imprint of Gale), edition(s) 4:1027-28
Literature and Its Times, volume(s) 2:230-235

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