Dive Deeper

• Creative combination of cultural history and easily accessible reference tool: Cotkin's succinct, engaging approach allows general readers to easily traverse Melville's labryinthine masterpiece
• Illustrates the novel's immense legacy in American culture, showing its influence on the visual arts, recording artists, and Hollywood
• Features over 25 illustrations

Readership: Students and scholars of American literature and general readers interested in classic fiction,

George Cotkin, Professor of History, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

George Cotkin is Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

"[An] entertaining companion to Moby-Dick." - Publishers Weekly, selected as a Pick of the Week

"Dive Deeper is a pleasure to read and the truest portrait of Moby-Dick in American life and letters yet produced." - David Dowling, author of Chasing the White Whale: The Moby-Dick Marathon; or What Melville Means Today

"seriously entertaining ... this new companion is as affable as it is smart" - The Boston Globe

TABLE OF CONTENTS
I . A Note to Readers
II. Etymology
III. Extracts
IV. Moby-Dick
V. Acknowledgements
VI. Notes

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