Sailing Without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels

by Steve Mentz

Book Overview

Journey through uncharted literary waters and explore Melville's epic in bold new light

Come sail with I.

We're not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiar course. This time, the Pequod's American voyage steers its course across the curvature of the Word Ocean without anyone at the helm. We are leaving one man and his madness on shore. Our ship overflows with glorious plurality-multiracial,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531506313
• ISBN13: 9781531506315
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"