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Melville’s fiction raises key questions of size and scale in maps and charts, weights and measures: surveying space, sounding depths, probing deep into time, questioning volumes, measuring out giant whales in the minutest detail; redrawing scientific taxonomies and systems of measurement as well as anthropometric and zoological classifications. Readers are queerly quizzed: how many inches of Ahab’s leg have been incorporated into the belly of the whale? Is man political animal or beastly brut...