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Whale Lore and Popular Print in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America: Sketches Toward a Profile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2009

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Newspapers and magazines—the popular print—of any time and place not only provide rich lodes from which profiles of what people read and talk about can be sketched; they also demonstrate how these media must be canvassed and appreciated if one would fully understand the culture, and literature, of the time.

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An American Tragedy: A 50th Anniversary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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1. Harper's, 3 (10, 1851), 766.Google Scholar

2. Atlantic, 2 (10, 1858), 578–84.Google Scholar

3. Harper's, 1 (11, 1850), 844–46.Google Scholar

4. Harper's, 12 (03, 1856), 466–82.Google Scholar

5. Harper's, 8 (04, 1854), 670–74.Google Scholar

6. Harper's, 10 (01, 1855), 276.Google Scholar

7. Harper's, 11 (09, 1855), 569.Google Scholar

8. Harper's, 10 (05, 1855), 853.Google Scholar

9. See Jay Leyda, The Melville Log (New York: Harcourt, 1951), I, 431–32.Google Scholar

10. 12 (March, 1856), 482.

11. Punch, 21 (1851), 242–43.Google Scholar

12. The Harp of a Thousand Strings; Or Laughter Fit for a Lifetime. Konceived, Comp., and Komically Konkokted, by Spavery … Aided, Added, and Abetted by Over 200 Kurious Kuts, from Original Designs (New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1858), pp. 98101Google Scholar. I am grateful to Professor Hennin Cohen of the University of Pennsylvania for letting me use this song. I am also especially indebted to Mr. Richard Kugler of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Mass., and to Mr. Charles R. Schultz, Librarian, the G.W. Blunt White Library, the Marine Historical Association, Mystic, Conn.