Hunting Captain Ahab

An interdisciplinary study of the development of institutional censorship, this work explores the complexities of 20th-century American cultural politics through the protagonists of the ""Melville Revival"". It also addresses the distinction between the radical and conservative Enlightenment.

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This highly acclaimed and provocative interdisciplinary study of the development of institutional censorship explores the complexities of 20th-century American cultural politics through the protagonists of the ""Melville Revival"". Spark addresses the distinction between the radical and conservative Enlightenment and makes her way through Melville's often confusing and contradictory texts, examining the disputes within Melville scholarship.