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I Know Him Not, and Never Will: Moby Dick, The Human and the Whale

In this thesis, I argue that Herman Melville's Moby Dick depicts the ocean and whales in a way that develops aesthetic theory into a proto-environmentalist message. Melville draws on theories of the mathematical and dynamic sublime as outlined by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant, while also employing...

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Main Author: Harris, Katherine
Other Authors: Twidle, Hedley
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Department of English Language and Literature 2021
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