Chaucerian Humor in Moby Dick : Queequeg's 'Ramadan'

Author / Editor
Sallfors, Solomon, and James Duban.

Title
Chaucerian Humor in Moby Dick : Queequeg's 'Ramadan'

Published
Leviathan 5 (2003): 73-77.

Description
Sallfors and Duban contend that MilT "informs the dramatic setting, humor, and tension of Ishmael's response to Queequeg's 'Ramadan'" in Chapter 17 of Melville's "Moby Dick." Specifically, the characterization of John the Carpenter underlies Ishmael's skeptical response.

Contributor
Duban, James.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Miller and His Tale.