



The idea behind this panel was not to displace either of these categories of questions but to stress a third category of question: the aesthetic. MLA Abstracts MLA 2005–Washington, DC “Melville: The Aesthetic Turn” Chair: Geoffrey Sanborn, Bard College F or quite a while now, the questions we have asked about Melville’s work have tended to come in two varieties: the first cultural/historical/ political the second philosophical/ethical/psychoanalytic. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
