We will read and discuss Herman Melville’s 1851 epic American whale-hunting and sea-going novel Moby-Dick, which the famous and famously controversial British novelist D.H. Lawrence once called “one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world.” It's spectacular, long, and full of songs and poems, Biblical allusions and Shakespearean references, and fine details about the nineteenth-century whaling industry that you never knew you wanted so badly to know.