Probably Dr. Snodhead could sort it out, being "a very learned man, professor of Low Dutch and High German in the college of Santa Claus and St. Pott’s."
Original research and riffs on Herman Melville, authorship, and nineteenth-century American literature.
Friday, March 24, 2017
Derick De Deer, German or Dutch?
Probably Dr. Snodhead could sort it out, being "a very learned man, professor of Low Dutch and High German in the college of Santa Claus and St. Pott’s."
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Hey hey, I just found this excellent and highly pertinent article by Cornelis de Jong on Melville's mockery of foreign whalers. Wish I had seen this earlier, via SSOAR:
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https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-56113-3
Hooray for open access!!!