Great reading list: http://www.andywimbush.com/mobydick
Further Reading/Research
James, C. L. R., Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the
World We Live In (1953).
Philbrick, Nathaniel. Why Read Moby-Dick? (Viking, 2011)
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea (2001)
Hoare, Philip. Leviathan, Or, the Whale (2009)
LITERARY CRITICISM
Blum, Hester, The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American
Sea Narratives (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008).
Cohen, Margaret, The Novel and the Sea (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010).
King, Richard J., Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2019).
Selby, Nick (ed.), Herman Melville, Moby-Dick: Essays, Articles, Reviews (Columbia Critical Guide)
CREATIVE RESPONSES
Beachy-Quirk, Dan .A Whaler’s Dictionary (Milkweed Editions, 2008)
Mentz, Steve. Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels (2024)
Olson, Charles. Call Me Ishmael (1947)
Boston Crusaders marching band “White Whale” 2023 performance (thanks to Caitlyn King for the discovery!