Empire for Liberty Empire for Liberty

Empire for Liberty

Melville and the Poetics of Individualism

Wai Chee Dimock
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Publisher Description

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."

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2021
August 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
264
Pages
PUBLISHER
Princeton University Press
SELLER
Princeton University Press
SIZE
1.2
MB

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