Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival

This highly acclaimed and provocative interdisciplinary study of the development of institutional censorship explores the complexities of 20th-century American cultural politics through the protagonists of the
Melville Revival . Spark addresses the distinction between the radical and conservative Enlightenment and makes her way through Melville’s often confusing and contradictory texts, examining the disputes within Melville scholarship.