Hunting Captain Ahab : psychological warfare and the Melville revival / Clare L. Spark.
Hunting Captain Ahab : psychological warfare and the Melville revival / Clare L. Spark.
Hunting Captain Ahab : psychological warfare and the Melville revival / Clare L. Spark.
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Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2001.
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N813.3/12
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English
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x, 730 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. Melville's Rainbow (Under-Read): An Unclosed Case Study in Conservative Enlightenment -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Moderate Response to Nineteenth-Century Radicalism: "American Literature" and the Progressives -- 3. The Fatal Line: Who Was Isabel? What Was His Problem? -- 4. Melville and the...
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Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2001.
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Ohio
Date Published
c2001.
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"In this interdisciplinary study of the development of institutional censorship, Clare Spark explores the complexities of 20th-century American cultural politics through the protagonists of the Melville Revival. She investigates closely the history of the Revival and its key critics, who manipulated Melville's life and writings in the service of th...
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Hunting Captain Ahab : psychological warfare and the Melville revival / Clare L. Spark.
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 695-713) and index.
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c2001.
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N813.3/12
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74VvyRgMjmyg
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0873386744 (alk. paper)
9780873386746 (alk. paper)
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813.3
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991016092179702626
