Hunting Captain Ahab : psychological warfare and the Melville revival - Spark, Clare (Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, 2001)
pt. 1. Melville's rainbow (under-read) : an unclosed case study in conservation enlightenment -- The moderate response to nineteenth-century radicalism : "American literature" and the Progressives -- The fatal line : who was Isabel? What was his problem? -- Melville and the radical Puritans -- The modern artist as Red Specter : "An irruption of heretic thought hard to suppress" -- pt. 2. Tracing their old courses again : the Melville revival, 1919-1953 -- The boulevard of broken dreams : Raymond M. Weaver and the Melville revival, 1919-1935 -- Pluralism in one perfectly happy family, 1926-1953 : a peep at apes and angels -- A change of clowns : film noir phasing out the weaver synthesis -- pt. 3. Melville, Ahab, and the Jewish-American Hitler -- White rot in the Melville industry -- After the revolution : the racial discourse of ethnopluralism -- appendix. Repunctuating the Melville revival : a new map, a pause, and a tour through the archives.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1993).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 695-713) and index.
Mode of access: Internet.
Keywords: Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 20th century; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century