This author coined the phrase "the shock of recognition" in his essay "Hawthorne and His Mosses." The protagonist of one of this author's novels pledges to worship a malign god through defiance in a chapter titled "The Candles." This author portrayed Amasa Delano's discovery of a slave rebellion led by Babu aboard the San Dominick in Benito Cereno, and wrote a novel about a monomaniacal Quaker who employs Starbuck, Queequ
This author coined the phrase "the shock of recognition" in his essay "Hawthorne and His Mosses." The protagonist of one of this author's novels pledges to worship a malign god through defiance in a chapter titled "The Candles." This author portrayed Amasa Delano's discovery of a slave rebellion led by Babu aboard the San Dominick in Benito Cereno, and wrote a novel about a monomaniacal Quaker who employs Starbuck, Queequeg, and Ishmael. For 10 points, name this American author of a novel about Captain Ahab's hunt for a white whale, Moby-Dick.
This author coined the phrase "the shock of recognition" in his essay "Hawthorne and His Mosses.
Herman {Melville}