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Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn
Why Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear--and our compassion Herman Melville's Captain Ahab is perennially seen...
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Why Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear--and our compassion
Herman Melville's Captain Ahab is perennially seen as the paradigm of a controlling, tyrannical agent. Ahab Unbound leaves his position as a Cold War icon behind, recasting him as a contingent figure, transformed by his environment--by chemistry, electromagnetism, entomology, meteorology, diet, illness, pain, trauma, and neurons firing--in ways that unexpectedly force us to see him as worthy of our empathy and our compassion. In sixteen essays by leading scholars, Ahab Unbound advances an urgent inquiry into Melville's emergence as a center of gravity for materialist work, reframing his infamous whaling captain in terms of pressing conversations in animal studies, critical race and ethnic studies, disability studies, environmental humanities, medical humanities, political theory, and posthumanism. By taking Ahab as a focal point, we gather and give shape to the multitude of ways that materialism produces criticism in our current moment. Collectively, these readings challenge our thinking about the boundaries of both persons and nations, along with the racist and environmental violence caused by categories like the person and the human.Ahab Unbound makes a compelling case for both the vitality of materialist inquiry and the continued resonance of Melville's work.
Contributors: Branka Arsic, Columbia U; Christopher Castiglia, Pennsylvania State U; Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt U; Christian P. Haines, Pennsylvania State U; Bonnie Honig, Brown U; Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt U; Pilar Martínez Benedí, U of L'Aquila, Italy; Steve Mentz, St. John's College; John Modern, Franklin and Marshall College; Mark D. Noble, Georgia State U; Samuel Otter, U of California, Berkeley; Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College; Ralph James Savarese, Grinnell College; Russell Sbriglia, Seton Hall U; Michael D. Snediker, U of Houston; Matthew A. Taylor, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ivy Wilson, Northwestern U.
Author: Meredith Farmer
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 04/19/2022
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781517907556
About the Author
Meredith Farmer is assistant teaching professor in English and the Environmental Program at Wake Forest University. She is author of the forthcoming book Melville's Leaks: Science, Materialism, and the Reconstitution of Persons.
Jonathan D. S. Schroeder is assistant professor of English and comparative literary studies at the University of Warwick. He is editor of the forthcoming book The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery.
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