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- Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism
- Book
- 2021
- Published by: Princeton University Press
summary
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."
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-2
- 2. Author as Monarch
- pp. 42-75
- 3. Author as Subject
- pp. 76-108
- 4. Blaming the Victim
- pp. 109-139
- 5. Knowing the Victim
- pp. 140-175
- 6. Personified Accounting
- pp. 176-214
Additional Information
ISBN
9780691234564
Related ISBN(s)
9780691015095, 9780691067582
MARC Record
OCLC
1273306059
Pages
264
Launched on MUSE
2021-10-27
Language
English
Open Access
No