https://padlet.com/st149559/g0c6tvp4vj142jrz The Whiteness of the Whale en-us 2022-10-27 00:59:40 UTC 2025-10-29 09:32:29 UTC hello@padlet.com http://is4.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Publication/v4/f7/f0/96/f7f0969f-ea1b-3ce8-cebf-16e28034dd65/source/1500x2400sr.jpg richardpowers https://padlet.com/st149559/g0c6tvp4vj142jrz/wish/2361756886 This is an amazing book if you have time to read it. In college, we read it over 6 weeks, so there was a lot of time to really get into it. Then, I became a college teacher of American Literature, so I taught it for about five years with Hawthorne's *Scarlet Letter* and James's *Portrait of a Lady*. I think I'm pretty good at reading it with students, but one needs time. The novel only became famous in the 1920s and was largely ignored when it was first published. Melville died in obscurity after what started as a promising career due to his travel sketches. I think it's interesting how the book is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne, and that the book title has a hyphen in Moby-Dick, but the whale character in the novel doesn't. Rich ]]> 2022-10-29 22:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/st149559/g0c6tvp4vj142jrz/wish/2361756886