the other James

[Mark Kohut]

I have heard about James' work for a while but have never read anything. You have triggered me to get it.

but, I just want to ask/observe? I have always merged the totalitarian/captain of industry reading of Ahab.....Melville on how many such in America, in the world, are. Not specific enough? 

A provocative study of Moby Dick in which James
challenged the prevailing Americanist interpretation that opposed a
"totalitarian" Ahab and a "democratic, American" Ishmael, he offered
instead a vision of a factory-like Pequod whose "captain of industry"
leads the "mariners, renegades and castaways" of its crew to their