Title: Hunting Captain Ahab
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.
Subjects: American fiction, Captain Ahab (Fictitious character), Criticism, Criticism and interpretation, History, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Politics and literature, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Criticism, united states
Places: United States
People: Herman Melville (1819-1891)
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century