This 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 S...
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Introduction.- 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 Ai...
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Brian Pellar has authored four papers in Sino-Platonic Papers, a scholarly monographic series. After serving four years in the US Navy, he studied art, biology, and...