Session Details

Thursday, 29 December

522. Melville: The Aesthetic Turn

3:30–4:45 p.m., Virginia Suite B, Marriott

Program arranged by the Melville Society

Presiding: Geoffrey D. Sanborn, Bard Coll.

1. “A Squeeze of the Invisible Hand: Materialist Aesthetics and Capitalism in Moby-Dick,” Paul D. Gilmore, California State Univ., Long Beach

2. “Melville and the Aesthetics of Freedom,” John Stauffer, Harvard Univ.

3. “From Typee to Clarel: ‘Across the Chasm,’” Samuel Otter, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Respondent: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Yale Univ.

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