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Melville and the Silver Screen
Melville and the Silver Screen
I recently visited the New Bedford Whaling Museum and was delighted to learn that the adjacent Mariners’ Home had a special exhibition on…
Annie Tummino
Apr 20, 2018
Visiting the New Bedford Whaling Museum while reading Moby-Dick
Visiting the New Bedford Whaling Museum while reading Moby-Dick
This semester I am taking “The Last Great Hunt: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, and American Culture” with Melville expert Dr. John Rocco. The…
Annie Tummino
Apr 16, 2018
Kate Chopin, Transcendentalism, & The Sea — A Timeline
Trisha Seeley
Dec 13, 2017
The Hollow Earth Theory, a Bloody Mutiny Aboard a Whaler, the Essex Disaster, and Poe’s PYM — A…
Trisha Seeley
Dec 13, 2017
The Early Governors of Sailors’ Snug Harbor
The Stephen B. Luce Library serves as a repository of the records of Sailors’ Snug Harbor, America’s first home for retired seaman and one…
Stephen B. Luce Library
Dec 9, 2017
Edgar Allan Poe and American Sea Fiction
In The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838), Edgar Allan Poe brilliantly riffs on the 19th century sea narrative…
Annie Tummino
Nov 6, 2017
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