Dec 24, 2012 By: wpadmin
Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, director of Stern College for Women’s S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program, recently published an , the famed Moby Dick author, in The New York Times. Her essay focuses on two drafts of Melville’s poem “Inscription for the Slain at Frederiksburgh,” a work he composed for soldiers killed in the Civil War. Wachtell is also the author of War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914.
