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A Political Companion to Herman Melville /
Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. However, political theorists have tended to avoid Melville, turning rather to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Tho...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
2013.
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| Colección: | Political companions to great American authors.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: American tragedy: the political thought of Herman Melville / Jason Frank
- Who eats whom? Melville's anthropolitics at the dawn of Pacific imperialism / Kennan Ferguson
- "The end was in the beginning": Melville, Ellison, and the Democratic death of progress in Typee and Omoo / Sophia Mihic
- Chasing the whale: Moby-Dick as political theory / George Shulman
- Ahab, American / Susan McWilliams
- "Mighty lordships in the heart of the republic": the anti-rent subtext to Pierre / Roger W. Hecht
- Melville and the cadaverous triumphs of transcendentalism / Shannon L. Mariotti
- Language and labor, silence and stasis: Bartleby among the philosophers / Kevin Attell
- Melville's "permanent riotacracy" / Michael Jonik
- What Babo saw: Benito Cereno and "the world we live in" / Lawrie Balfour
- "Follow your leader": Benito Cereno and the case of two ships / Tracy B. Strong
- The metaphysics of Indian-hating revisited / Thomas Dumm
- Melville's war poetry and the human form / Roger Berkowitz
- The lyre of Orpheus: aesthetics and authority in Billy Budd / Jason Frank
- Melville's law / Jennifer L. Culbert.