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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 14h

Lots of options but let's go classic on this one and say that time we shitposted so hard they put it in a peer reviewed journal and then that issue won a prize 🐳

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · 14d

This reminds us of our favorite Midwest tourist attraction and definitely does not make us think about OUR LEG.

Image from House on the Rock with the open mouth of a whale and boat inside.

Image from House on the Rock of the underside of the whale, show that it is being attacked by a giant squid.

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · 18d

Agreed! There will never been enough illustrated editions of Moby-Dick!

Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 23d

My brother Byrne should do an illustrated Moby Dick

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · 19d

The art is pouring in to our DMs! Huge thanks to @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social for bringing Angela Smyth’s amazing whale to our attention!

We definitely consider ourselves a whale appreciation society.

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · 20d

This beautiful art was sent to us anonymously and we want to remind you our DMs are always* open.

*Until our co-laborers melt into the sperm.

Edited tweet that now reads:

[Pequod waiting room]
Me: [chanting]
squeeze, squeeze-
co-laborers: squeeze, SQUEEZE
whale [pounding her
clipboard] SQUEEZE, SQUEEZE, SQUEEZE!

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 25d

So I read Moby Dick for the first time this summer. I read it slowly, and I took a lot of notes (selections in the 🧵⬇️). I was motivated in part by learning more over the last few years about the 18th c spermaceti candle business of the Browns in our collections @jcblibrary.bsky.social. But also 1/

18th century form with an image of a sperm whale centered. "SpermaCeti Candles Warranted" made and sold by Nicholas Brown & co. In the collections of the John Carter Brown Library.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Sep 2

I saw JAWS for the first time this weekend and nobody had ever told me it was mostly just guys on a boat (i e Moby-Dick)

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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · Aug 28

I can't believe people were just walking around in the 19th century saying "higgeldy-piggledy"

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · Aug 18

The committee said, "Marsoin’s article is tightly argued and beautifully written, providing a rare and engaging balance of astute, expansive theoretical and historical framing alongside careful, convincing close readings of narrative structure, character, and imagery."

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · Aug 18

Today, we're starting with our 2020 winner, Édouard Marsoin, whose article, “‘No Land of Pleasure Unalloyed’: Economies of Pleasure and Pain in Melville’s Typee and Omoo,” which was published in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. muse.jhu.edu/article/774729

Project MUSE - “No Land of Pleasure Unalloyed”: Economies of Pleasure and Pain in Melville’s <i>Typee</i> and <i>Omoo</i>

muse.jhu.edu

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · Aug 18

We are exactly 4 weeks away from the 2024 nomination deadline to submit nominations for the 2024 Hennig Cohen Prize. This year, we wanted to take a look back at some of the incredible work done by past winners. www.melvillesociety.org/the-hennig-c...

The Hennig Cohen Prize — The Melville Society

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · Aug 15

Please consider submitting or nominating articles and chapters on the works of Herman Melville published in 2024 for consideration for the Hennig Cohen Prize. Submission deadline is September 15th!

See more details, including a list of past winners, at www.melvillesociety.org/the-hennig-c...

The Hennig Cohen Prize — The Melville Society

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Alan VeBe 🏳️‍🌈🐒🐳🏳️‍⚧️ @peculiarhermes.bsky.social · Jul 20

Nouvelle plongée dans la thèse de Jean Simon sur #HermanMelville, avec un oeil différent après les archives de la @melville-society.bsky.social, dont le natif de Béthune (Nord) est membre dès 1947 (!). Et le besoin soudain de mieux connaître ses frequentations parisiennes dans les années 20.

Herman Melville. Marin, métaphysique et poète. Thèse Jean Simon

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · Aug 1

it's Melville's birthday, tag urself -
(we're obviously the husk-inhusked meat in a nut)

Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social · Aug 1

Happy birthday HM

Bananas paragraph from Herman Melville's Mardi: "And here, in this impenetrable retreat, centrally slumbered the universe-rounded, zodiac-belted, horizon-zoned, sea-girt, reef-sashed, mountain-locked, arbor-nested, royalty-girdled, arm-clasped, self-hugged, indivisible Donjalolo, absolute monarch of Juam:—the husk-inhusked meat in a nut; the innermost spark in a ruby; the juice-nested seed in a goldenrinded orange; the red royal stone in an effeminate peach; the insphered sphere of spheres."

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · Jul 12

Maurice Sendak's illustration of Pierre laying under the Memnon stone. We're not even going to talk about how it appears as if Pierre is wearing a pale blue body stocking in this and most of the other illustrations from this edition.

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Alexander R. Phillips @arphillips.bsky.social · Jul 12

Had a "Middlemarch" rumspringa last year, but still team "Moby-Dick." 🐳

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Jul 11

Echo chamber? ECHO CHAMBER?!? This site has BOTH people who think Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written AND people who know the real GOAT is Middlemarch!!

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · Jul 12

It feels like that must have started longer ago than August 2020, but then again, August 2020 is longer ago than it feels....

endnotes on the previously linked Oct. 2024 Leviathan essay which begin with the most vital: "1. 'The poll simply stated "one. Moby Dick. Middlemarch." (@V21Collective, August 16,
2020). Moby-Dick won, 52.4% to 47.6%."

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · Jul 12

If you need a scholarly source for context on the origins of Middlemarch v. Moby-Dick, may we suggest muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Project MUSE - "do your thing whale hive": A Roundtable on Melville Twitter

muse.jhu.edu

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · Jul 12

oh, so we're starting THIS again, eh?

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Jul 11

Echo chamber? ECHO CHAMBER?!? This site has BOTH people who think Moby Dick is the greatest novel ever written AND people who know the real GOAT is Middlemarch!!

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Chris Slaby @cjslaby.bsky.social · Jun 25

A day late and a dollar short, perhaps, but a quick note to say that I joined a group of Melville Scholars (@melville-society.bsky.social) last week in Connecticut to think about oceans (and Melville) at UConn-Avery Point and Mystic Seaport and it was wonderful and amazing! A few photos and ideas.

A photograph of the Charles Morgan, the only remaining nineteenth-century whaling ship, at Mystic Seaport.

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Alan VeBe 🏳️‍🌈🐒🐳🏳️‍⚧️ @peculiarhermes.bsky.social · Jun 25

Soooo, after the Melville conference, I'm having a blast at the (very friendly I must say) #NewBedford Whaling Museum digging into the @melville-society.bsky.social Archives as a Bezanson fellow. You never know what you will step into, funny stuff

"Dead!!!", and not the white whale, as it should

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The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · Jun 24

Fun fact: today's nephews learned this style of discourse from Moby-Dick

Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Jun 22

I love this book and the Whale Facts chapters have the same energy and tone as my four year old nephew talking about dinosaurs

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Jun 20

I thought this was a book about a whale and so far it’s a gay romance novel what the fuck

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Alan VeBe 🏳️‍🌈🐒🐳🏳️‍⚧️ @peculiarhermes.bsky.social · Jun 22

Oceanic Melville, the @melville-society.bsky.social conference, was magical! UConn's Avery Point campus was ideal to stay focused. Met many great great people (Melvilleans are the best, fact.), exchanged about comics, secularisation, queer studies, illustrations, etc. And what a cultural program!!!

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Caroline Hildebrandt @carolhildebr.bsky.social · Jun 22

Goodbye to misty Mystic and to sunny New Bedford, and so long to the jolly crew of fellow Mellvilleans! It's been a blast, as always...
Thank you for these incredible conferences throughout the years!

@melville-society.bsky.social 🐳🙏🏻

Whale necklace in front of the sea with fog

Rigging of the Charles W. Morgan whaleship

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