Empire for Liberty

Melville and the Poetics of Individualism

Häftad, Engelska, 1991

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Beskrivning

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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Utgivningsdatum:1991-02-21
Mått:140 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Princeton University Press
ISBN:9780691015095

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"In this tenacious and articulate study, Professor Dimock explores the 'textual governance' of Melville's fiction: the ways in which the expectations and practice of imperialism in antebellum America necessarily informed--and limited--the poetics of Melville's 'authorial sovereignty' over his writings. Not everyone will agree with her conclusions about Melville's problematical poetics and historicism; yet her book will send the reader back again and again to Melville, equipped with new insights into his art and vision."--R. Bruce Bickley, Jr., American Literature