The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies (New Americanists)

"An exciting and important work, one that is a major contribution to Melville studies and to American cultural history. It is an eloquent and impassioned defense of theory in the face of a militant resistance to it both by traditional humanist critics and by certain New Historicists."-Edgar A. Dryden, University of ArizonaWilliam V. Spanos is the author of 'The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies (New Americanists)', published 1995 under ISBN 9780822315995 and ISBN 0822315998.