| 书目名称 | Moby-Dick and Melville’s Anti-Slavery Allegory | | 编辑 | Brian R. Pellar | | 视频video | | | 概述 | 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 ar | | 丛书名称 | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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 Drawing on a rich variety of sources such as unpublished papers, letters, reviews, and family memorabilia, the chapters discuss the significance of these laws within Melville’s own life.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. . | | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | | 关键词 | Moby-Dick; Fugitive Slave Act; Compromise of 1850; Slavery; Allegory; Herman Melville; Race | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52267-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-84863-1 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-52267-8Series ISSN 2634-579X Series E-ISSN 2634-5803 | | issn_series | 2634-579X | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |
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