Screen LibraryMoby-Dick and Melville s Anti-Slavery Allegory /
This book unfurls and examines the anti-slavery allegory at the subtextual core of Herman Melville s famed novel, Moby-Dick. Brian Pellar points to symbols and allusions in the novel such as the albinism of the famed whale, the Ship of State motif, Calhoun s cords, the equator, Jonah, Narcissus, St....
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52267-8 |
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This book unfurls and examines the anti-slavery allegory at the subtextual core of Herman Melville s famed novel, Moby-Dick. Brian Pellar points to symbols and allusions in the novel such as the albinism of the famed whale, the Ship of State motif, Calhoun s cords, the equator, Jonah, Narcissus, St. Paul, and Thomas Hobbe s Leviathan. The work contextualizes these devices within a historical discussion of the Compromise of 1850 and subsequently strengthened Fugitive Slave Laws. Drawing on a rich variety of sources such as unpublished papers, letters, reviews, and family memorabilia, the chap |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XVII, 234 pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319522678 |
| Index Number: | PN760 |
| CLC: | I106 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- 2 Melville s Motivations -- 3 The Ship of State -- 4 Hemp and Calhoun s Cords -- 5 Man as Whale -- 6. This Afric Temple of the Whale -- 7 The Equator.-8 Who Ain t a Slave? -- 9 The Log and the Line -- 10 St. Paul -- 11 I Do Not Baptise Thee in Name -- Moby-Dick and Black Blood -- 10 Moby Dick in Service -- Epilogue. |