The meaning of the "gams" in Moby Dick
The meaning of the "gams" in Moby Dick

Summary/Abstract: In his Herman Melville: Representative Selections, Willard Thorp writes that “Every serious book or article that Melville wrote is a variation on the social theme (Thorp xcviii).” Since a “gam” is an encounter with another whaler (followed or not by some sort of socializing), it would perhaps be useful to look at the nine gams in Moby-Dick in terms of Melville’s views on society.

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