ENG130 - Windholz

Choose a chapter of Moby-Dick from the Fluid Text Version from the Melville electronic library. Scan the text for differences between the British and American first editions. What differences are there? How do these change the meaning of the text?

Choose a volume from Melville's Marginalia. Read the documentary note, then look for passages in the book that are annotated or marked by Melville. What do we know about the book's history? What might this book teach us about Herman Melville or Moby-Dick?