The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies

by William V. Spanos

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In The Errant Art of Moby-Dick, one of America's most distinguished critics reexamines Melville's monumental novel and turns the occasion into a meditation on the history and implications of canon formation. In Moby-Dick-a work virtually ignored and discredited at the time of its publication-William V. Spanos uncovers a text remarkably suited as a foundation for a "New Americanist" critique of the ideology based on Puritan origins that...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822315998

ISBN13:9780822315995

Release Date:June 1995

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:392 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.0"

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