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209 Notes Preface 1.herman melville,Moby-Dick (1851; evanston,iL: northwestern university Press,1988),456. 2. The adjective “american” is both imprecise and problematic, for it designates hemispheric, continental, and national identities. Because the citizens of the new republic appropriated this descriptor for themselves and because the residents of other countries tend not to refer to themselves as such, i use the term throughout this book to refer to the cultural and artistic productions of the united states. 3. see, e.g., “The Pirate shenandoah,” New York Times, august 27, 1865; mark Twain, “The Whaling Trade” (1866), in Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii, ed. a. Grove day (new York: appleton-century, 1966), 87–95 (originally published in the Sacramento Union); “aboard a sperm-Whaler,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 8, no. 47 (1854): 670–74; charles melville scammon, “northern Whaling,” Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine 6, no. 6 (1871): 548–54; William comstock,“Whaling in the Pacific—encounter with a White Whale,”Uncle Sam, october 1842; William h.macy,“Leaves from the Arethusa’s Log,”pt.1,Flag of Our Union 23,no. 25 (June 1868): 398; edward dusseault, “recollections of other days: a common interruption to a Whaleman’s Yarn,”Ballou’s Monthly Magazine 51,no.2 (february 1880): 163–67; “encounter with a Whale,”Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion 1,no.3 (may 1851): 36. 4. Joseph c. hart, Miriam Coffin; or, The Whale-Fishermen: A Tale (1834; nantucket, ma: mill hill Press, 1995); francis allyn olmsted, Incidents of a Whaling Voyage to Which Are Added Observations on the Scenery, Manners and Customs, and Missionary Stations, of the Sandwich and Society Islands (1841; new York: Bell Publishing company, 1969); J. ross Browne, Etchings of a Whaling Cruise, ed. John seelye (1846; cambridge: Belknap Press of harvard university Press, 1968); T. c. harbaugh, The Lost Boy Whalers; or, In the Shadow of the North Pole (new York: Beadle and adams, 1899); c. dunning clark, Tom Stone, the Old Sea Dog (new York: Beadle and adams, 1899); roger starbuck [augustus comstock], The Blue Anchor; or, The Lost Bride (new York: Beadle and adams,1868). 5.James fenimore cooper,Ned Myers; or, A Life before the Mast (new York,1852),117. 6. Bullen was a British sailor who served aboard one of new Bedford’s whaling vessels as a foremast hand. he has been included here, despite his national status, because he wrote several books about the new england whale fishery and its workers and because his attitudes toward the industry mirror those of american writers.his works include The Cruise of the “Cachalot”: Round the World after Sperm Whales (new York, 1899); A Whaleman’s Wife (London: hodder and stoughton, 1902); and Denizens of the Deep (new York: f.h.revell,1904). 210 Notes to Pages x–3 7. mark Twain, Roughing It (1872; new York: Penguin, 1981), 366–73; Jack London, Martin Eden (1909; new York: random house,2002),80–81. 8. see, e.g., elmo Paul hohman, The American Whaleman: A Study of Life and Labor in the Whaling Industry (new York: Longmans, Green, 1928); edouard a. stackpole, The Sea-Hunters: The Great Age of Whaling (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1953); everett s. allen, Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973); Briton cooper Busch, “Whaling Will Never Do for Me”: The American Whaleman in the Nineteenth Century (Lexington: university Press of Kentucky, 1994); margaret s. creighton, Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830–1870 (cambridge: cambridge university Press, 1995); Lisa norling, Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720–1870 (chapel hill: university of north carolina Press, 2000); nathaniel Philbrick , In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship “Essex” (new York: Penguin Putnam, 2000); d. Graham Burnett, Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature (Princeton: Princeton university Press, 2007); eric Jay dolin,Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America (new York: norton,2007). 9. Paul a. Gilje, Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (Philadelphia: university of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), xii; margaret cohen, The Novel and the Sea (Princeton: Princeton university Press, 2010), 2, 15; hester Blum, The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives (chapel hill: university of north carolina Press,2008),15. 10.Burnett...

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