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Herman Melville: Stargazer.(book)(Book review)

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From: Leviathan
Date: 20051001
Author:Poole, Gordon

Herman Melville: Stargazer

BRETT ZIMMERMAN (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998)

All Melville's longer works are about voyages, some of them rather long ones. So it comes as no surprise that references to stars and other celestial phenomena should recur in his works. Some have been commented on by scholars, especially John M. J. Gretchko, to whom Brett Zimmerman feels especially indebted. His, however, is the first, systematic, book-length study of the matter and a valuable source for anyone who is--as all Melville scholars should be--interested in ...

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