Critical Insights Moby-Dick

Edited by Robert C. Evans, I. B. Young Professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery, this volume presents a variety of new essays on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, which is often considered the greatest American novel - a vast epic that combines deep philosophy and high adventure as well as rich comedy and profound tragedy. Moby-Dick also offers a particularly diverse array of characters of various types, personalities, and ethnic backgrounds, and its styles are as varied as the people