Trying Leviathan : : The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature / / D. Graham Burnett.
In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes s...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
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| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- ONE. Introduction
- TWO. Common Sense
- THREE. The Philosophical Whale
- FOUR. Naturalists in the Crow's Nest
- FIVE. Men of Affairs
- SIX. The Jury Steps Out
- SEVEN. Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index