Trying Leviathan : the nineteenth-century New York court case that put the whale on trial and challenged the order of nature /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in the courts of New York City. In Trying Leviathan, D. Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (299 pages) |
Premios: | Isabelle Hermalyn Book Award, 2007 New York City Book Award, 2007 |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781400833986 1400833981 9780691129501 0691129509 |