Ungraspable Phantom: Essays on Moby-Dick

A collection of essays presented at the sesquicentenary Moby-Dick conference

The twenty-one essays collected in "Ungraspable Phantom" are from an international conference held in 2001 celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Moby-Dick. The essays reflect not only a range of problems and approaches but also the cosmopolitan perspective of international scholarship. They offer new thoughts on familiar topics: the novel's problematic structure, its sources in and reinvention of the Bible, its Lacanian and post-Freudian psychology, and its rhetoric. They also present fresh information on new areas of interest: Melville's creative process, law and jurisprudence, Freemasonry and labor, race, Latin Americanism, and the Native American.

Scholars, students, and readers of Moby-Dick will find this collection of essays fresh and insightful.

Author: Bercaw Edwards
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 03/06/2010
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.4lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781606350683