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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 821–824.
Published: 01 December 2013
... : Oxford Univ. Press . 2012 . x, 239 pp . $65.00 . Secularism in Antebellum America: With Reference to Ghosts, Protestant Subcultures, Machines, and Their Metaphors; Featuring Discussion of Mass Media, “Moby-Dick,” Spirituality, Phrenology, Anthropology, Sing Sing State Penitentiary, and Sex...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 29–57.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Christopher Taylor Taylor reads Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851) through the history of the captured prosthetic limb of Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna. U.S. travel narratives, soldiers' accounts, and P. T. Barnum's 1847 display of the captured prosthesis in his American Museum...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 190–192.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Cereno” and “Moby-Dick.” By Sterling Stuckey. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. ix, 154 pp. $27.95. Book Reviews
Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System. By Michelle
Burnham. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press. 2007. viii, 222 pp. Paper,
$30.00...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 192–195.
Published: 01 March 2010
...: The Fiction after “Moby-Dick,” 1851–1857 . By William V. Spanos. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2008. xiv, 280 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $26.95. Book Reviews
Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System. By Michelle
Burnham. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 245–274.
Published: 01 June 2014
... conclude by returning to Moby-Dick to demonstrate how this genealogy of disability representation opens up new ways of reading canonical disability-studies texts and of illuminating the cultural shift from impairment to identity. More broadly, this essay urges scholars to carefully historicize discussions...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 747–773.
Published: 01 December 2011
... and American travel writing. By the 1850s this animal's association with wasteful expenditure had begun to surface even in prominent American literature, including Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851). He argues that the white whale operates in a manner that calls to mind the white elephant, and that this novel...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 505–532.
Published: 01 September 2012
... and imagining of this raw material—literally avant la lettre—as a way of better understanding the economy of a substance whose manufactured sizes (folio, octavo, and duodecimo) he had already used to classify whales in Moby-Dick and on which his recalcitrant copyist, Bartleby, refuses to write. © 2012 by Duke...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 305–332.
Published: 01 June 2010
... Party and the “Young America” movement seemed to take a sinister turn with the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and Melville grew disillusioned with Young America's literary side following the poor reception of Moby-Dick (1851). Melville's fourth novel, Redburn (1849), though regarded as one of his secondary...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 227–257.
Published: 01 June 2005
... recovered. The doctor who attended
Te Pehi Kupe was so impressed by the reciprocal devotion of the two
men that he conveyed their story to a writer in London, George Lillie
Craik, who retold it in The New Zealanders (1830).
Sometime before the composition of Moby-Dick (1850–51), Herman
Melville came...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 645–655.
Published: 01 September 2012
... J. Richard. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2009. xiii, 258
pp. $47.50.
Whipscars and Tattoos: “The Last of the Mohicans,” “Moby-Dick,” and the Maori.
By Geoffrey Sanborn. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2011. xv, 184 pp. $49.95.
Some of the best recent work in nineteenth-century American...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 59–87.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of separate
spheres as ‘‘too crude an instrument—too rigid and totalizing7
The ‘‘masculine’’ space of the Pequod in Moby-Dick (1851) reveals
itself, under close examination, to be far more ambiguous in its gender
Melville and the Architecture of Masculinity 61
affiliations than...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 851–879.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Melville ( 1851 ) taps into the wide-ranging significance of this “valuable fish” in the chapter of Moby-Dick titled “Chowder.” The title refers to the signature menu item at the Try Pots Inn on Nantucket, where Ishmael and Queequeg stay as they seek out and await the departure of their chosen vessel...
FIGURES
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 837–844.
Published: 01 December 2013
... in Emerson
and Whitman, he argues, as a “pattern of poetic ascent and descent” within
a single life and between lives. This model of consciousness and American
selfhood is an expressly poetic activity linked to self-reliance, individualism,
and democratic struggle.
Dive Deeper: Journeys with “Moby...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 613–618.
Published: 01 September 2020
... (especially ophthalmology and optometry) to print culture, paper currency, literature, painting, and urbanization. Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of “Moby-Dick” . By Richard J. King. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2019. 430 pp. Cloth, $30.00; e-book, $18.00. This study reconsiders Herman...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 229–240.
Published: 01 March 2007
... in contemporary poetry by
women in the United States, asking why recognition of this kind of work has
thus far gone unnoticed and providing new readings of work by Waldrop,
Hejinian, and Howe.
Collections
“Ungraspable Phantom”: Essays on Moby-Dick. Ed. John Bryant, Mary K. Bercaw...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 March 2016
... views from Garrisonian to strict construc-
tionist, is the strongest component of Fugitive Bonds. Perhaps the weakest is
his interpretation of Moby-Dick (1851). The attempts to grasp the symbolic
meaning of the white whale are uncountable, but surely one of the least per-
suasive is Phan’s notion...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 893–914.
Published: 01 December 2011
...,
or Why We Need Open Access Now, 466–68.
Review: O’Connor, Poetic Acts and New Media, 466–68.
Review: Shillingsburg, From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Represen-
tations of Literary Texts, 466–68.
Taylor, Christopher. “The Limbs of Empire: Ahab, Santa Anna, and Moby-
Dick,” 29–57...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 451–458.
Published: 01 June 2010
... and engages trauma theory as
it has emerged through the work of Sigmund Freud, Cathy Caruth, Dominick
La Capra, and other theorists.
The Art of Literary Thieving: “The Catcher in the Rye,” “Moby-Dick,” and “Hamlet.” By
William Glasser. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press. 2009. 199 pp. $104.99.
Glasser...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 908–916.
Published: 01 December 2017
... is that Shakespeare’s works inspired innovations in Melville’s writing style, yielding Moby-Dick (1851). Haydock rescues an orphan strand, arguing that Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie humaine (1842–55) inspired Melville’s conception of plot, characterization, and psychological analysis. Using both extratextual...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 885–888.
Published: 01 December 2011
... © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Brief Mention
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“And So Hell’s Probable”: Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” and “Pierre” as Descent
Narratives. By Tamara Treichel. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. 2009.
235 pp. Paper, no price available.
Treichel offers...
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