Moby-Dick and Melville’s Anti-Slavery Allegory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moby-Dick and Melville’s Anti-Slavery Allegory write by Brian R. Pellar. This book was released on 2017-06-15. Moby-Dick and Melville’s Anti-Slavery Allegory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Drawing on a rich variety of sources such as unpublished papers, letters, reviews, and family memorabilia, the chapters discuss the significance of these laws within Melville’s own life.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.
Chasing the White Whale
Chasing the White Whale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chasing the White Whale write by Jessica Slone. This book was released on 2011. Chasing the White Whale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The work of Herman Melville has been explored by hundreds of scholars in the hopes of supporting a variety of claims. Until recent decades, the concept of slavery was applied only to works such as Benito Cereno and White-Jacket . However, in the midst of these studies sits Melville's largest accomplishment: Moby-Dick . Although that novel has been studied in depth by many, few have recognized the intricately constructed, carefully disguised slavery metaphor it conceals. This study offers a deeper understanding of Moby-Dick by relating its text to Herman Melville's unique position in relation to the nation's anti-slavery controversy, culminating in a discussion of the "fast-fish, loose-fish" concept, its importance to the whaling community, as well as its connection to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Combining these ideas, this project highlights not only the strength of Melville's anti-slavery feeling, but his innate ability to both craft and protect his message.
Moby Dick
Moby Dick - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moby Dick write by Herman Melville. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Moby Dick available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Herman Melville's classic tale of revenge, Ishmael tells his story of becoming a whaler on the Pequod. When Ishmael and his unexpected friend Queequeg join Captain Ahab's hunt for Moby Dick, the voyage of a lifetime turns into tragedy. The adventures of sailing the seas on the hunt for the great white whale is retold in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of Melville's Moby Dick. Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 3-8.
Melville and the Idea of Blackness
Melville and the Idea of Blackness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Melville and the Idea of Blackness write by Christopher Freeburg. This book was released on 2012-08-27. Melville and the Idea of Blackness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By examining the unique problems that 'blackness' signifies in Moby-Dick, Pierre, 'Benito Cereno' and 'The Encantadas', Christopher Freeburg analyzes how Herman Melville grapples with the social realities of racial difference in nineteenth-century America. Where Melville's critics typically read blackness as either a metaphor for the haunting power of slavery or an allegory of moral evil, Freeburg asserts that blackness functions as the site where Melville correlates the sociopolitical challenges of transatlantic slavery and US colonial expansion with philosophical concerns about mastery. By focusing on Melville's iconic interracial encounters, Freeburg reveals the important role blackness plays in Melville's portrayal of characters' arduous attempts to seize their own destiny, amass scientific knowledge and perfect themselves. A valuable resource for scholars and graduate students in American literature, this text will also appeal to those working in American, African American and postcolonial studies.
Melville's Mirrors
Melville's Mirrors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Melville's Mirrors write by Brian Yothers. This book was released on 2019-02-28. Melville's Mirrors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half.
