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Ahab unbound : Melville and the materialist turn / Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D.S. Schroeder, editors ; afterword by Samuel Otter.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.
- Melville, Herman.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Characters.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Sea stories, American--History and criticism.
- Sea stories, American.
- Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character).
- Ahab.
- Materialism in literature.
- Whaling in literature.
- Sailors in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Rethinking Ahab: Melville and the Materialist Turn
- Part I: Ontologies
- Chapter 1: Sailing without Ahab
- Chapter 2: Ambiental Cogito: Ahab with Whales
- Chapter 3: Ahab after Agency
- Chapter 4: Thinking with a Wrinkled Brow
- or, Herman Melville, Catherine Malabou, and the Brains of New Materialism
- Part II: Relations
- Chapter 5: Phantom Empathy: Ahab and Mirror-Touch Synesthesia
- Chapter 6: Phenomenology beyond the Phantom Limb: Melvillean Figuration and Chronic Pain
- Chapter 7: "The King Is a Thing."
- Or, Ahab as Subject of the Unconscious: A Lacanian Materialist Reading
- Chapter 8: Approaching Ahab Blind
- Part III: Politics
- Chapter 9: "This Post-Mortemizing of the Whale": The Vapors of Materialism, New and Old
- Chapter 10: Ahab's Electromagnetic Constitution
- Chapter 11: The Whiteness of the Will: Ahab and the Matter of Monomania
- Chapter 12: Diet on the Pequod and the Wreck of Reason
- Part IV: New Melvilles
- Chapter 13: Ahab's After-Life: The Tortoises of "The Encantadas"
- Chapter 14: Israel Potter
- or, The Excrescence
- Chapter 15: Melville, Materiality, and the Social Hieroglyphics of Leisure and Labor
- Chapter 16: Melville's Basement Tapes
- Afterword: Melville among the Materialists
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 27, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Ahab unbound.
- ISBN:
- 9781452961095
- 1452961093
- 1452961085
- 9781452961088
- Publisher Number:
- 40031109510
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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