New Essays on Moby-Dick (Paperback)

Series editor's preface; 1. Trying all things: an introduction to Moby-Dick Richard H. Brodhead; 2. The mariner's multiple quest James McIntosh; 3. Moby-Dick as sacred text Lawrence Buell; 4. Call me Ishmaek, or how to make double-talk speak Carolyn Porter; 5. Calvinist earthquake: Moby-Dick and religious tradition T. Walter Herbert, Jr.; 6. When is a painting most like a whale?: Ishmael, Moby-Dick, and the sublime Bryan Wolf; Selected bibliography.