{"product_id":"ahab-unbound-melville-and-the-materialist-turn-hardback-9781517907549","title":"Ahab Unbound; Melville and the Materialist Turn (Hardback) 9781517907549","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAhab Unbound\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMelville and the Materialist Turn\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMeredith Farmer (Edited by), Jonathan D. S. Schroeder (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517907549\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 April 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e464 pages, 7 black \u0026amp; whilte illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 5.1 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy Captain Ahab is worthy of our fear-and our compassion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab is perennially seen as the paradigm of a controlling, tyrannical agent. \u003ci\u003eAhab Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e leaves his position as a Cold War icon behind, recasting him as a contingent figure, transformed by his environment-by chemistry, electromagnetism, entomology, meteorology, diet, illness, pain, trauma, and neurons firing-in ways that unexpectedly force us to see him as worthy of our empathy and our compassion. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In sixteen essays by leading scholars, \u003ci\u003eAhab Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e advances an urgent inquiry into Melville’s emergence as a center of gravity for materialist work, reframing his infamous whaling captain in terms of pressing conversations in animal studies, critical race and ethnic studies, disability studies, environmental humanities, medical humanities, political theory, and posthumanism. By taking Ahab as a focal point, we gather and give shape to the multitude of ways that materialism produces criticism in our current moment. Collectively, these readings challenge our thinking about the boundaries of both persons and nations, along with the racist and environmental violence caused by categories like the person and the human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAhab Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e makes a compelling case for both the vitality of materialist inquiry and the continued resonance of Melville’s work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors: Branka Arsić, Columbia U; Christopher Castiglia, Pennsylvania State U; Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt U; Christian P. Haines, Pennsylvania State U; Bonnie Honig, Brown U; Jonathan Lamb, Vanderbilt U; Pilar MartÍnez BenedÍ, U of L’Aquila, Italy; Steve Mentz, St. John’s College; John Modern, Franklin and Marshall College; Mark D. Noble, Georgia State U; Samuel Otter, U of California, Berkeley; Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College; Ralph James Savarese, Grinnell College; Russell Sbriglia, Seton Hall U; Michael D. Snediker, U of Houston; Matthew A. Taylor, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ivy Wilson, Northwestern U.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRethinking Ahab: Melville and the Materialist Turn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeredith Farmer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I. Ontologies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Sailing without Ahab\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSteve Mentz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Ambiental Cogito: Ahab with Whales\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBranka Arsić\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Ahab after Agency \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMark D. Noble\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Thinking with a Wrinkled Brow; or, Herman Melville, Catherine Malabou, and the Brains of New Materialism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristian P. Haines \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II. Relations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Phantom Empathy: Ahab and Mirror-Touch Synesthesia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePilar MartÍnez BenedÍ and Ralph James Savarese\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Phenomenology beyond the Phantom Limb: Melvillean Figuration and Chronic Pain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichael D. Snediker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e‘The King is a Thing’; or, Ahab as Subject of the Unconscious: A Lacanian Materialist Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRussell Sbriglia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. Approaching Ahab Blind\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristopher Castiglia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart III. Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. ‘this post-mortemizing of the whale’: The Vapors of Materialism, New and Old\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBonnie Honig\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAhab’s Electromagnetic Constitution\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDonald E. Pease\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. The Whiteness of the Will: Ahab and the Matter of Monomania\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJonathan D. S. Schroeder\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. Diet on the \u003ci\u003ePequod\u003c\/i\u003e and the Wreck of Reason\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJonathan Lamb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart IV. New Melvilles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13. Ahab’s After-Life: The Tortoises of ‘The Encantadas’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatthew A. Taylor \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14. \u003ci\u003eIsrael Potter\u003c\/i\u003e; or, the Excrescence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColin Dayan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMelville, Materiality, and the Social Hieroglyphics of Leisure and Labor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIvy Wilson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16. Melville’s Basement Tapes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Modern\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfterword: Melville Among the Materialists\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSamuel Otter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619250336024,"sku":"9781517907549","price":68.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ahab-unbound-melville-and-the-materialist-turn-hardback-9781517907549","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}