Ahab’s Solipsism and the Illusion of Self-Reliance: The Career of Herman Melville

• Main Author: Liu, Victoria
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: California Institute of Technology 2021
• Subjects: English; Hixon Writing Center; Gordon McClure Memorial Communications Prize - English; Gordon McClure Memorial Communications Prize; Ahab; Queequeg; White whale
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7907/5apa-8591; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06092021-171613155

[Introduction] What’s eating moody Ahab? In Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Ahab is obsessed with hunting the white whale and cannot rest until he gets his revenge. His monomania germinates before the start of the novel, when a misadventure with Moby Dick results in a cruel disfigurement. Ahab cannot f...