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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...

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Otros Autores: Frank, Jason A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Series Foreword; Introduction: American Tragedy; Chapter 1. Who Eats Whom?; Chapter 2. The End Was in the Beginning
  • Chapter 3. Chasing the Whale; Chapter 4. Ahab, American; Chapter 5. Mighty Lordships in the Heart of the Republic
  • Chapter 6. Melville and the Cadaverous Triumphs of Transcendentalism; Chapter 7. Language and Labor, Silence and Statis; Chapter 8. Melville's Permanent Riotocracy
  • Chapter 9. What Babo Saw; Chapter 10. Follow Your Leader
  • Chapter 11. The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating Revisited.
  • Chapter 12. Melville's War Poetry and the Human FormChapter 13. The Lyre of Orpheus; Chapter 14. Melville's Law; Acknowledgments; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index; Series Page.