Blue Ecocriticism Lauded in the Journals ‘Science’ and ‘American Scholar’

Science, the nation’s premier science journal, and, American Scholar, one of the most prestigious humanities journals, have both published glowing reviews of Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick by ASLE member Richard King, a visiting associate professor at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, MA. Ahab’s Rolling Sea, published this year in part to commemorate Herman Melville’s 200th birthday, is a work of blue ecocriticism that examines what the author and his contemporary whalemen and naturalists knew about the ocean in the 19th C and then weaves this into a twenty-first century reading of the American classic.

Read the review in Science by author Christopher Kemp:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6464/431.1.summary

or here:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2019/10/24/ahabs-rolling-sea/

And in American Scholar, written by Princeton’s Thoreau scholar William Howarth

https://theamericanscholar.org/pursuing-the-white-whale/#.Xcq3TjJKho4