The Prosthetic Arts of Moby-Dick

by David Haven Blake

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The Prosthetic Arts of Moby-Dick offers the first book-length study of how physical disability shapes one of the world's most iconic novels. For generations, readers have viewed Captain Ahab's whalebone leg as a symbol of what he lacks, the limb he lost while fighting the white whale off the coast of Japan. David Haven Blake considers that ivory leg in a historical, medical, and geo-political context. Drawing on extensive archival research, he situates...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0197780512

ISBN13:9780197780510

Release Date:November 2024

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.06 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.5" x 9.4"

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