@article {689798,
	title = {Loss Without Remedy: Moby-Dick and the Laws of Compensation},
	journal = {PMLA},
	volume = {138},
	number = {1},
	year = {2023},
	pages = {37-51},
	abstract = {Reading\&nbsp;Moby-Dick\&nbsp;alongside the groundbreaking tort and accident jurisprudence of Melville{\textquoteright}s father-in-law, Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, reveals that the white whale{\textquoteright}s attack on Captain Ahab involves the same questions of risk, responsibility, and redress posed by nineteenth-century industrial accidents. More specifically, Ahab embodies the recrudescence of an earlier, revenge-based conception of justice that emerges in reaction to the pro-business jurisprudence of Shaw, in which industry was increasingly shielded from liability to its victims in cases of {\textquotedblleft}pure accident{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}precisely the possibility Ahab is fatally unable to accept. As narrator, Ishmael in turn augurs the rise of a new legal order that disavows the focus on blame and responsibility altogether.},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1632/S0030812922000906},
	author = {Geoffrey R. Kirsch}
}
