The Prosthetic Arts of Moby-Dick

by David Haven Blake

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"