Overview
- Grapples with provocative and controversial questions of race that will refresh readers with a timely reading of a novel that has been exhaustively discussed
- Combines a plethora of biographical and archival research to lay out its convincing case
- Offers a comprehensive account of the book's literary history but also scholarly history surrounding the topic of race
Part of the book series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century (ALTC)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
After clarifying the hidden allegory interconnecting black slaves and black whales, this book carefully sheds the layers of a hidden meaning that will be too convincing to ignore for future readings: Moby-Dick is ultimately a novel that is intimately connected with questions of race, slavery, and the state.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Brian Pellar has authored four papers in Sino-Platonic Papers, a scholarly monographic series. After serving four years in the US Navy, he studied art, biology, and psychology, and ultimately English. He currently lives in Boston, MA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Moby-Dick and Melville’s Anti-Slavery Allegory
Authors: Brian R. Pellar
Series Title: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52267-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-52266-1Published: 29 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84863-1Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-52267-8Published: 15 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-579X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5803
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 234
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, North American Literature, Literary History