Dec 24, 2012 By: wpadmin
Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, director of Stern College for Women鈥檚 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鈥檚 poem 鈥淚nscription for the Slain at Frederiksburgh,鈥 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.
