By Clare Spark, author of Hunting Captain Ahab (Kent State University Press, 2000; 2nd ed. 2006):
"Critics are eager to classify him, to annex a domesticated and pacified artist to their own political projects, not to understand his unresolved ambivalence about the possibilities of a freethinking democratic polity that could lead to mob rule. Hence nervous critics have frequently insisted on making him either an ultraconservative, a centrist, or a left-wing radical, and have managed his biography accordingly...."
Herman Melville, Dead White Male | History News Network
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