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

by William V. Spanos

Book Overview

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"