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03066aam a2200397 i 4500 001 25A4659C6B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 160212s2016 caua b 001 0beng 010 $a 2015046993 020 $a 1440850070 020 $a 9781440850073 035 $a (OCoLC)933272005 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d VMI $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a ps----- $a ps----- 050 00 $a PS2384.M62 E87 2016 082 00 $a 813/.3 $2 23 245 04 $a The Essex and the whale : $b Melville's Leviathan library and the birth of Moby-Dick / $c R.D. Madison, editor. 264 1 $a Santa Barbara, California : $b Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, $c [2016] 300 $a xxxiv, 275 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 520 $a The notorious 1820 sinking of the whaleship Essex inspired Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, as recounted in Nathaniel Philbrick's bestselling book In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex--now a major motion picture. But how exactly did Melville transmute the historic tragedy of the Essex into what is arguably the "Great American Novel"? Here, for the first time, R. D. Madison collects together Melville's personal "library" of whaling and whale-lore into a single volume and presents these primary sources in a way that readers can readily see how a horrific whaling tragedy became a literary masterpiece. But where die Moby-Dick begin? Prompted by sailor-author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Melville supplemented his own firsthand experience as a whaleman in the South Pacific with "libraries" of books that he "swum through" to create his whaling masterpiece. Scholars and lay readers alike have long wondered how he did it, and over the past 60 years, a very tight theory of inspiration and creation has emerged. It is very likely wrong. This volume gathers together for the first time all of the main texts that Melville encountered, including the accounts of the unique sinking of the Essex by a sperm whale that provided the climax for Moby-Dick. Melville scholar R. D. Madison examines what critics have said about Melville's response to the sinking and offers the challenging thesis that Melville did not even begin the book at all until spurred on by Dana in the spring of 1850. -- Inside jacket flap. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 600 10 $a Melville, Herman, $d 1819-1891. $t Moby Dick $x Sources. 600 10 $a Melville, Herman, $d 1819-1891 $x Whaling. $x Whaling. 600 10 $a Melville, Herman, $d 1819-1891 $x Books and reading. 650 0 $a Whaling $v Literary collections. 650 0 $a Novelists, American $y 19th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Whalers (Persons) $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Whaling $z South Pacific Ocean $x History $y 19th century. 700 1 $a Madison, R. D., $e editor. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021021258.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826051640.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=25A4659C6B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search