Moby Dick (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Herman Melville
- First Published: 1851
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Adventure, Sea story
- Subjects: Nature, Nineteenth century, Antiheroes, Ships, Sailing or sailors, Amputation, amputees, or prosthetics, Sea or seafaring life, Romanticism, Tattoos, Whales or whaling
- Locales: Boston, MA, Oceans, Nantucket Island
Places Discussed
*New Bedford. Massachusetts fishing community and seaport about sixty-five miles southeast of Boston, where the novel begins when its narrator, Ishmael, arrives to sign onto a whaling ship. He first stays at the Spouter Inn, where the only accommodation available is a room with one bed that he must share with the forbidding-looking harpooner Queequeg, a “heathen” from an uncharted South Seas island. During a storm, Ishmael seeks shelter in the Whaleman’s Chapel, where he is deeply moved by the sermon of the retired harpooner Father Mapple on the biblical...
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