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Title Page
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Contents
Rethinking Ahab: Melville and the Materialist Turn
Part I: Ontologies
Chapter 1: Sailing without Ahab
Chapter 2: Ambiental Cogito: Ahab with Whales
Chapter 3: Ahab after Agency
Chapter 4: Thinking with a Wrinkled Brow
or, Herman Melville, Catherine Malabou, and the Brains of New Materialism
Part II: Relations
Chapter 5: Phantom Empathy: Ahab and Mirror-Touch Synesthesia
Chapter 6: Phenomenology beyond the Phantom Limb: Melvillean Figuration and Chronic Pain
Chapter 7: "The King Is a Thing."

Or, Ahab as Subject of the Unconscious: A Lacanian Materialist Reading
Chapter 8: Approaching Ahab Blind
Part III: Politics
Chapter 9: "This Post-Mortemizing of the Whale": The Vapors of Materialism, New and Old
Chapter 10: Ahab's Electromagnetic Constitution
Chapter 11: The Whiteness of the Will: Ahab and the Matter of Monomania
Chapter 12: Diet on the Pequod and the Wreck of Reason
Part IV: New Melvilles
Chapter 13: Ahab's After-Life: The Tortoises of "The Encantadas"
Chapter 14: Israel Potter
or, The Excrescence

Chapter 15: Melville, Materiality, and the Social Hieroglyphics of Leisure and Labor
Chapter 16: Melville's Basement Tapes
Afterword: Melville among the Materialists
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index