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Ahab Unbound
Language: en
Pages: 613
Authors: Meredith Farmer
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-19 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

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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 ag
Ahab's Rolling Sea
Language: en
Pages: 449
Authors: Richard J. King
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-11 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Although Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature wri
Captain Ahab Had a Wife
Language: en
Pages: 391
Authors: Lisa Norling
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-01 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men to distant seas on voyages lasti
Ahab's Bride
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Louise M. Gouge
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: David C Cook

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Before Captain Ahab encountered Moby Dick, he met the woman who would capture his heart--Hannah Oldweiler. This voyage back to 19th Century Nantucket completes
Secret Sharers: Melville, Conrad and Narratives of the Real
Language: en
Pages: 399
Authors: Paweł Jędrzejko
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-01 - Publisher: M-Studio

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The present book explores a variety of fundamental questions that all of us secretly share. Its twenty-one chapters, written by some of the world’s leading Me