The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies

Author/Contributor(s):	Spanos, William V
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	06/30/1995
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

""The Errant Art of Moby-Dick" retrieves for all of us the errant art of critical reading, which no mere program of cynical professionalism or fashionable 'new historicism' could ever successfully practice in any genuine sense. As such, this work is a major intervention in Melville studies, American literature studies, and the culture of criticism generally."--Daniel O'Hara, Temple University