Hunting Captain Ahab
Subtitle: psychological warfare and the Melville revival
By: Clare L. Spark.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 730
Subjects: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 20th century; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character); United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Description: "In this interdisciplinary study of the development of institutional censorship, Clare Spark explores the complexities of 20th-century American cultural politics through the protagonists of the Melville Revival. She investigates closely the history of the Revival and its key critics, who manipulated Melville's life and writings in the service of their own particular social and political agendas.

Spark's assertions are based on her exploration of either newly opened or previously unexplored archival materials of leading Melville scholars - Raymond Weaver, Charles Olson, Henry A. Murray, and Jay Leyda."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 695-713) and index.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1993.