Episode 35: Moby-Dick, Part 2

Regrettably, we bring our discussion of this whale of a tale to a close today. That's right, we are wrapping up Moby-Dick (1851). We talk labor, the environment, liberalism, and that chapter where they all get together and...uh...you'll see. We also get into why Ahab and Elizabeth Holmes might be more alike than you think. Unless you already think they are very much the same. In which case, they are exactly as alike as you'd expect.

We read the Norton Critical Edition edited by Hershell Parker and Harrison Hayford. If you want to set sail on a vast, beautiful sea of knowledge and harpoon some ideas about Melville, check out Myra Jehlen's chapter in Readings at the Edge of Literature (2002), “The Novel and the Middle Class in America.” There is also a good Emerson joke in there!

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