{"title":"The Whale and the Wire: Moby-Dick and the 1858 Atlantic Telegraph Cable","authors":"Harriet M Thompson","doi":"10.1093/camqtly/bfac036","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay, the winner of the 2021 Richard D. Gooder Essay Prize, considers the development of submarine telegraphy, particularly the 1858 voyage to lay the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, and explores its relationship to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Drawing on connections between accounts of the 1858 cable voyage and Melville's novel, this essay considers the ways in which human and non-human networks enabled communication and connection across the globe.","PeriodicalId":374258,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Quarterly","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Cambridge Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfac036","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT:This essay, the winner of the 2021 Richard D. Gooder Essay Prize, considers the development of submarine telegraphy, particularly the 1858 voyage to lay the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, and explores its relationship to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Drawing on connections between accounts of the 1858 cable voyage and Melville's novel, this essay considers the ways in which human and non-human networks enabled communication and connection across the globe.