Inscrutable Malice: Theodicy, Eschatology, and the Biblical Sources of Moby-Dick

Jonathan A. Cook is the author of Satirical Apocalypse: An Anatomy of Melville's "The Confidence-Man" and has published numerous articles and reviews on the writings of Melville, Hawthorne, Poe, Irving, and other nineteenth-century American authors. He is chair of the English Department at Middleburg Academy and an adjunct professor at Lord Fairfax Community College, Virginia.