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Join Prof Peter Otto to celebreate the launch of Melville's Maritime Politics by David Mence

Thursday 12 March, 6.00pm
Readings Carlton

We are delighted to have Professor Peter Otto launch David Mence's Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea.

Melville's Maritime Politics offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville (1819-1891). Across six chapters, Mence presents Melville's political vision as one of "perpetual upkeep at sea": the ship of state must be sailed and repaired on the open ocean even as, to borrow from Moby-Dick, the "wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore."

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Location
Carlton, Wurundjeri Country, 309 Lygon St, Carlton
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