Resources and Links
Our blogspot: The Book of Everything
McHenry Library guide to researching literary topics
AtLast(t) Literature maps: blog by Claire Light. See especially her "Map of Speculative Fiction," the description of the gnod-literature map, and the Pequod map.
External links on Melville and Moby-Dick:
- I do not recommend the main Wikipedia entry on Moby-Dick on the grounds that its interpretation dates from about 1950. However, the entry on MD and popular culture is great.
- The Melville Society is the main scholarly organization and is planning a grand hypertext archive, not yet realized.
- The New Bedford Whaling Museum has an excellent illustrated history of the whaling industry (yes, industry) in the US.
- U Virginia E-text library version of Chapter 55, "Of the monstrous pictures of whales": pop-up links to versions of all of the prints and paintings Melville was known to refer to in this chapter--very illuminating
Pynchon's Against the Day: individual topics
Against the Day Wiki (be a contributor!) - excellent, though still incomplete, source for references
See all reviews of Against the Day published shortly after its publication (for positive ones, see esp. Luc Sante, Mark Feeney, Lisel Schlessinger)