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Melville and the politics of identity : from King Lear to Moby-Dick

Print Book, English, ©1993
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, ©1993
American fiction
164 pages ; 23 cm
9780252019951, 9780252063022, 0252019954, 0252063023
26720251
Ch. 1. The historic relations of King Lear and Moby-Dick
ch. 2. King Lear as exemplar and model
ch. 3. Melville's route to King Lear
ch. 4. Ahab's sources, politics, theology, and tragedy
ch. 5. Ishmael's alternative politics
ch. 6. Ishmael's consciousness
Appendix. Melville's markings in Shakespeare's plays