What animals mean, in Moby-Dick, for example

Textual Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 93-111

  Armstrong, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agency; Animals; Bruno Latour; Herman Melville; Moby Dick; Whales

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347296869     PISSN: 0950236X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0950236042000329663     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. John Berger, "Animal world", New Society, 18 (1971), pp. 1042-3: p. 1043.
2. Marjorie Garber, Dog Love (New York: Touchstone, 1997), p. 42.
3. Erica Fudge, Animal (London: Reaktion, 2002), p.22.
4. Annabelle Sabloff, Reordering the Natural World (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001), p. 15.
5. Donna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs and Women (London: Routledge, 1991), p. 201.
6. Steve Baker, The Postmodern Animal (London: Reaktion, 2000), p. 82.
7. John Simons, Animal Rights and the Politics of Literary Representation (New York: Palgrave, 2002), pp. 5-6, 85-7.
8. Jonathan Burt, Animals in Film (London: Reaktion, 2002), p. 31.
9. Philo and Wilbert, Animal Spaces, pp. 15-16.
10. Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), pp. 10-11.
11. Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, p. 89.
12. Hence the power of allegorical readings of the novel such as Alan Heimert's "Moby-Dick and American political symbolism", American Quarterly, 15/4 (1963), pp. 498-534.
13. For a critique of some ideological assumptions governing ecocritical approaches, see my article, "Moby-Dick and compassion", Society and Animals, 12/1 (2004), pp. 19-37.
14. Robert Zoellner, The Salt-Sea Mastodon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), pp. 146-65.
15. Zoellner, The Salt-Sea Mastodon, pp. 151-2.
16. Howard Vincent, The Trying-out of Moby-Dick (Cambridge, MA: Riverside, 1949), pp. 132-3.
17. William Scoresby, Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1923), p. 135.
18. Vincent, The Trying-out of Moby-Disk, p. 166.
19. Thomas Beale, The Natural History of the Sperm Whale (London: John van Voorst, 1839), pp. 9-10.
20. Frederick Bennett, Narrative of a Whaling Voyage Around the Globe from the Year 1833 to 1836 (London: Richard Bentley, 1840), vol. II, pp. 176-7.
21. Beale, Natural History, p. 91; for other accounts of these rogues,
22. Bennett Narrative of a Whaling Voyage, vol. II, p. 220.
23. Owen Chase, The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex (1821; London: Review, 2000), pp. 33-5.
24. Charles Olson, Call Me Ishmael (San Francisco, CA: City Lights, 1947), p. 12.
25. Chase, Wreck, pp. 23-4.
26. Reynolds, "Mocha Dick", pp. 564-5.
27. Alexander Starbuck, History of the American Whale Fishery (1882; Secaucus, NJ: Casde, 1989), p. 122.
28. See Francis Olmsted's Incidents of a Whaling Voyage (1841; Rutland: Charles E. Turtle 1969), pp. 144-5, which Melville knew. In the year of Moby-Dick's publication, a Punch burlesque and an American opinion piece demonstrated urban intellectual disdain for such stories
29. see Clement Sawtell's The Ship Ann Alexander of New Bedford, 1805-1851 (Mystic, CT: Marine Historical Association, 1962), pp. 87-94.
30. For a survey of anthropomorphic representations of the animal in the nineteenth century, see Christine Kenyon-Jones, Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-period Writing (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001). For my own analysis of Melville's anthropomorphism see ""Leviathan is a skein of networks": translating nature and culture in Moby-Dick", ELH, 71 (2004), 1039-1063.
31. Michael Rogin, Subversive Genealogy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), p. 118.