LEADER 03242nam 22005655 450 001 9910255064203321 005 20240724115528.0 010 $a9783319522678 010 $a3319522671 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-52267-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000001406076 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-52267-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4878091 035 $a(Perlego)3498086 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001406076 100 $a20170615d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMoby-Dick and Melville's Anti-Slavery Allegory /$fby Brian R. Pellar 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XVII, 234 p. 4 illus.) 225 1 $aAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century,$x2634-5803 311 08$a9783319522661 311 08$a3319522663 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 2 Melville's Motivations -- 3 The Ship of State -- 4 Hemp and Calhoun's "Cords" -- 5 Man as Whale -- 6. "This Afric Temple of the Whale" -- 7 The Equator.-8 "Who Ain't a Slave?" -- 9 "The Log and the Line" -- 10 St. Paul -- 11"I Do Not Baptise Thee in Name" -- Moby-Dick and "Black Blood" -- 10 Moby Dick in Service -- Epilogue. 330 $aThis book unfurls and examines the anti-slavery allegory at the subtextual core of Herman Melville's famed novel, Moby-Dick. Brian Pellar points to symbols and allusions in the novel such as the albinism of the famed whale, the "Ship of State" motif, Calhoun's "cords," the equator, Jonah, Narcissus, St. Paul, and Thomas Hobbe's Leviathan. The work contextualizes these devices within a historical discussion of the Compromise of 1850 and subsequently strengthened Fugitive Slave Laws. Drawing on a rich variety of sources such as unpublished papers, letters, reviews, and family memorabilia, the chapters discuss the significance of these laws within Melville's own life. After clarifying the hidden allegory interconnecting black slaves and black whales, this book carefully sheds the layers of a hidden meaning that will be too convincing to ignore for future readings: Moby-Dick is ultimately a novel that is intimately connected with questions of race, slavery, and the state. . 410 0$aAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century,$x2634-5803 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y19th century 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aLiterary History 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aLiterary History. 676 $a809.034 700 $aPellar$b Brian R$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01064529 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255064203321 996 $aMoby-Dick and Melville?s Anti-Slavery Allegory$92538799 997 $aUNINA