“Squeezing Case(s)” with Melville: A Haptic Reading of “The Whiteness of the Whale”

This essay performs a haptic reading of “The Whiteness of the Whale” chapter in Melville’s Moby-Dick. Following Ishmael’s way of “squeezing cases” and touching upon epistemological issues, it explores how Melville’s fiction dramatizes the affective, epistemological, and literary capabilities of touc...

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Main Author: Édouard Marsoin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2023-11-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/22074
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