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Empire for liberty : Melville and the poetics of individualism / Wai Chee Dimock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dimock, Wai-chee, 1953- author.
- Series:
- Princeton paperbacks. Literature/American history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Melville, Herman.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1989]
- 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."
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 : Nation, Self, and Personification
- Chapter 2: Author as Monarch
- Chapter 3: Author as Subject
- Chapter 4: Blaming the Victim
- Chapter 5: Knowing the Victim
- Chapter 6: Personified Accounting
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691015095
- 0691015090
- 9780691234564
- 0691234566
- OCLC:
- 1261364519
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