One of these places is described as “a city of fires, that burned hot and fiercely in the night” in a short story based on its author’s hometown of Wheeling, West Virginia. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this location where Hugh Wolfe sculpts a figure of a woman with “tense, rigid muscles” in a short story by Rebecca Harding Davis.
ANSWER: iron mills [or factories; or factory; or ironworks; accept “Life in the Iron Mills”; prompt on workplaces or businesses]
[10m] This other author wrote a diptych (“DIP-tick”) about a “seedsman” who travels between the “Temple Bar” of the titular lawyers and a paper factory. He also wrote a novella about a slave revolt led by Babo aboard the San Dominick.
ANSWER: Herman Melville (The stories are “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” and Benito Cereno.)
[10e] Melville began writing short fiction after the commercial failure of this novel about Ahab’s hunt for a giant white whale that begins with the line “Call me Ishmael.”
ANSWER: Moby Dick
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