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  • Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism
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  • Wai Chee Dimock
  • 2021
  • Published by: Princeton University Press
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Wai Chee Dimock approaches Herman Melville not as a timeless genius, but as a historical figure caught in the politics of an imperial nation and an "imperial self." She challenges our customary view by demonstrating a link between the individualism that enabled Melville to write as a sovereign author and the nationalism that allowed America to grow into what Jefferson hoped would be an "empire for liberty."

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half-Title Page, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. 1. Nation, Self, and Personification
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  1. 2. Author as Monarch
  2. pp. 42-75
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  1. 3. Author as Subject
  2. pp. 76-108
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  1. 4. Blaming the Victim
  2. pp. 109-139
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  1. 5. Knowing the Victim
  2. pp. 140-175
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  1. 6. Personified Accounting
  2. pp. 176-214
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  1. Notes
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  1. Index
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