{"id":465,"date":"2025-10-14T04:33:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/i-happened-to-read-moby-dick-alongside-shakespeare-specifically-richard-ii-and-its-clear-that-melville-was-quite-directly-https-t-co-q7peenxgmd-x\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T04:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T04:33:04","slug":"i-happened-to-read-moby-dick-alongside-shakespeare-specifically-richard-ii-and-its-clear-that-melville-was-quite-directly-https-t-co-q7peenxgmd-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/10\/14\/i-happened-to-read-moby-dick-alongside-shakespeare-specifically-richard-ii-and-its-clear-that-melville-was-quite-directly-https-t-co-q7peenxgmd-x\/","title":{"rendered":"I happened to read Moby Dick alongside Shakespeare, specifically Richard II, and it&#8217;s clear that Melville was quite directly https:\/\/t.co\/Q7PEENxgMD&#8221; \/ X"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Melville is a post-industrial revolution author, though, writing from the other side of modernity\u2019s threshold. Where Shakespeare\u2019s preoccupation is in human relations and the psyche, Melville recognizes that we are in a time of discovery and change, and he is just as intently interested in society, the economy, biology, and the wider planet. Even when telling the history of a country, Shakespeare\u2019s worlds are small; Melville\u2019s, despite being substantially hemmed to a boat, is somehow large. Maybe Shakespeare in some way captured all there was to be captured at the time; if so, in Melville we can see how much larger humanity has become: industry, trade networks, energy, science, anthropology, firms with multinational labour, knowable continents beyond great seas.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/patrickc\/status\/1977074940907282924?s=46&#038;t=fSypFxt84bBHId-do9r5Ag\">x.com\/patrickc\/status\/1977074940907282924<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melville is a post-industrial revolution author, though, writing from the other side of modernity\u2019s threshold. Where Shakespeare\u2019s preoccupation is in human relations and the psyche, Melville recognizes that we are in a time of discovery and change, and he is just as intently interested in society, the economy, biology, and the wider planet. Even when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}