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A Brief Chat #223: Hester Blum takes a fresh look at Moby-Dick

Posted on December 6, 2022December 5, 2022
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Hester Blum is a professor of English at Penn State. She recently edited, and wrote the introduction for, the new Oxford World’s Classics edition of Moby-Dick. In this interview, we talk about new ways to interpret Melville’s classic through our modern lens; polar exploration; our responsibility to cultures other than our own; and more.

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