Call Me Ishmael, But Don't Call Moby-Dick "Boring" (Moby-Dick, Part 2)

 In part 2 of our conversation on Moby-Dick, editor Jeffrey Insko breaks down his favorite lines and highlights the pleasures of uncovering the novel's endless layers of humor and meaning—even (especially?) in the dreaded Cetology chapter...

Jeffrey Insko is Professor of English at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, where he teaches courses in nineteenth-century American Literature and Culture and the Environmental Humanities. He is the editor of the Norton Library edition of Moby-Dick and the author of History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing (2018). 

To learn more or purchase a copy of the Norton Library edition of Moby-Dick, go to https://seagull.wwnorton.com/moby-dick.

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Episode transcript at: https://seagull.wwnorton.com/mobydick/part2/transcript.