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

• Published in: Journal of Transnational American Studies
• Main Author: L. Katherine Smith
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship Publishing, 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; Social sciences (General); H1-99; Ahab; Pacific; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5070/T8101043945; https://doaj.org/article/24e756875695475093afe18de4d97578

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 frequ...