Cartographic Sea-Changes in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick: Ahab, Charles Wilkes, and the US Exploring Expedition

• Main Author: Smith, L. Katherine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2019
• Subjects: history of cartography; surveying and mapping; cartography and imperialism; American Literature 1800-1899; United States Exploring Expedition; Wilkes; Charles; United States imperialism; expansionism; Oceanic Studies; Archipelagic Studies; Transnational A; Ahab; Pacific; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0t99r53z

Recent attention to the intersections between literature and geography has yielded productive new readings of old classics like Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, though developments in scholarship on deep time, the Anthropocene, and archipelagic and oceanic studies bring new exigency to Melville’s freque...