Episode Synopsis "Disease and the Great American Novels: Herman Melville's Moby Dick and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin by Brian Yothers, U of Texas at El Paso, USA"

Brian Yothers is the Frances Spatz Leighton Endowed Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA. He is the author or editor of 13 books and special issues of journals, including Sacred Uncertainty: Religious Difference and the Shape of Melville’s Career, Reading Abolition: The Critical Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, and Melville’s Mirrors: Literary Criticism and America’s Most Elusive Author. He is also editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.

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