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"Culpability and transgression in the monomania of Ahab".

Publication: Melville Society Extracts
Publication Date: 01-JUL-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Accounts of Ahab's hunt for the white whale in Herman Melville's Moby Dick, from both Ishmael, and research literature, typically separate transgression from monomania; after all, purposive action is not the hallmark of monomania, nor many other psychological illnesses. Modern psychological sicknesses no longer include monomania, largely because psychologists...

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