The Oxford University Press is including some additions to the classic novel for today's sensitive youth.
New introduction focuses on the novel's elasticity and continued relevance for twenty-first-century readers, with attention to its queerness and its meditations on race, power, and disability
Which, as usual, is an excuse for people not involved with the creation of a work to talk about themselves.
Links (Apologies for the lack of archive. Archive's being glacially slow again.):
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/moby-dick-9780198853695?cc=us&lang=en - Oxford University Press website.
https://www.hesterblum.com/about - The editor's bio.
Stonkmar 0 points 1.9 years ago
I agree. Also, before I read the book I assumed Captain Ahab was a real badass ballbreaker. Not so much. Wolf Larson from The Sea-wolf is more along the lines of what I thought Ahab was supposed to be.