在19世纪美国文学史上,出现了很多知名的文学家,他们对后世产生了十分重要的影响,赫尔曼·梅尔维尔就是其中以为,而且也是一个十分典型的19世纪美国作家的代表,他在去世之后的很多年才被人们关注,但是他与纳撒尼尔·霍桑并称为19世纪美国最具有开创意义的两位作家。《白鲸》是他的代表作品,也是一部一直在被传颂的千古史诗,虽然这部小说以海洋作为主题,但是不是简单的航海小说,在这部小 In the history of American literature in the 19th century, there appeared many famous writers who had a very significant influence on later generations. Herman Melville was one of them, but also a representative of the typical 19th-century American writer. Many years after his death, attention was paid to him, but he and Nathaniel Hawthorne called the two most creative writers in the United States in the nineteenth century. “Moby Dick” is his representative work, but also has been praised the eternal epic, although the novel as the theme of the oceans, but not a simple nautical novel, in this small