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Moby-Dick and Melville's anti-slaver...

Melville, Herman, (1819-1891)

Moby-Dick and Melville's anti-slavery allegory

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Moby-Dick and Melville's anti-slavery allegoryby Brian R. Pellar.
Author:	Pellar, Brian R.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017.
Description:	xvii, 234 p. :ill., digital ;22 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Slavery in literature.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52267-8
ISBN:	9783319522678$q(electronic bk.)

Moby-Dick and Melville's anti-slavery allegory
Pellar, Brian R.

Moby-Dick and Melville's anti-slavery allegory[electronic resource] /by Brian R. Pellar. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xvii, 234 p. :ill., digital ;22 cm. - American literature readings in the 21st century. - American literature readings in the 21st century..

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.

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 Drawing on a rich variety of sources such as unpublished papers, letters, reviews, and family memorabilia, the chapters discuss the significance of these laws within Melville's own life. 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.

ISBN: 9783319522678$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-52267-8doiSubjects--Personal Names:

176244
Melville, Herman,
1819-1891.Subjects--Topical Terms:

176473
Slavery in literature.

LC Class. No.: PS2384.M62 / P45 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 813.309

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