Melville Sea Dictionary: A Glossed Concordance and Analysis of the Sea Language in Melville's Nautical Novels

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Melville's Sea Dictionary is a useful contribution to Melville scholarship. Gidmark's subject is a sea vocabulary, ' 345 nautical terms selected from Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, and Moby Dick; her object is the construction of a linguistic research tool with which to examine the art of Herman Melville at close quarters. . . . The Melville Sea Dictionary . . . should be in every academic library that supports graduate studies in American literature.-Choice
"Melville's Sea Dictionary is a useful contribution to Melville scholarship. Gidmark's subject is a sea vocabulary, ' 345 nautical terms selected from Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, and Moby Dick; her object is the construction of a linguistic research tool with which to examine the art of Herman Melville at close quarters. . . . The Melville Sea Dictionary . . . should be in every academic library that supports graduate studies in American literature."-Choice

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JILL B. GIDMARK is Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor of Literature and Writing at the University of Minnesota, General College. Her previous reference work is the Melville Sea Dictionary (Greenwood, 1982), and her essays have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and anthologies.