References and resources related to this project. Includes links to books, articles and lectures consulted as well as on-line projects and sites of interest.
- Hubert Dreyfus: Philosophy 6 Man, God, and Society in Western Literature - This course, taught at UCBerkeley in 2007, includes a study of Moby Dick and polytheism. Professor Dreyfus was committed to providing online access to his amazing lectures, where he sometimes refered to the "ipod people out there." This project is a direct result of my being one of the ipod people. (note: The first two files have some audio problems but it gets better.)
- Moby Dick full text: Project Gutenberg - Full text of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Free to anyone. Project Gutenberg.
- Andrew Delbanco, Melville: His World and Work - Biography of Herman Melville (Vintage:NY, 2005)
- Moby Dick illustrated by Rockwell Kent - Yale library digital collection
- Charles Olson: Call me Ishmael - New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. See also Black Mountain college and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Olson
- Power Moby-Dick: Online Annotation - Notes on text
- New Bedford Whaling Museum - Located in the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park. 18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, MA, 02740.
- So Ends This Day: The Portuguese in American Whaling, 1765-1927 - By Donald Warren, Published by Tagus Press at UMASS Dartmouth, 2010.
- CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art: Moby Dick exhibition - Sept 22 - Dec 29, 2009. San Francisco
- Nantucket Whaler - Remains Found - "...He (Captain Pollard) eventually took a job as the town’s night watchman. In the 1850s, he was visited by a 30-something writer who had just published a novel — “Moby-Dick” — to middling reviews. A former whaler himself, Melville had sought out Pollard and found, according to Mr. Philbrick, a kind of soul mate in the older man." (nytimes, 2/11/2011)
- All Things Shining by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean D. Kelly - All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age, NY:Free Press, 2011. Chapter 6: Fanaticism, Polytheism, and Melville's 'Evil Art'
- All Things Shining - blog -
- Why Read Moby Dick by Nathaniel Philbrick - Published October 12, 2011. New York Times Book Review, October 21.
- Blog: Gemina Garland-Lewis, National Geographic Young Explorer - Includes interviews and portraits of Azorean whalers. See Chapter 27: Knights and Squires for more links to Gemina Garland-Lewis' 2012-13 project.
- White whale in the big smoke: How the geography of London inspired Moby-Dick - by Philip Hoare, December 2, 2015, New Statesman. (also how the paintings of Turner inspired Moby Dick)
- Moby Dick Big Read - An online project curated by artist Angela Cockayne and writer Philip Hoare. Each chapter is read by a different person, beginning with Tilda Swinton.
- J.M.W. Turner’s Unloved Late Paintings; or, The Whales - An article by Allison Meier, Hyperallergic, July 8, 2016, .