Empire for liberty: Melville and the poetics of individualism

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Empire for Liberty -- CHAPTER I: 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

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Main Author: Dimock, Wai-chee 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2021]
In:Year: 2021
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Melville, Herman 1819-1891
B Melville, Herman 1819-1891 / Novel
B Girard, René 1923-2015
Further subjects:B Sovereignty
B Slavery
B Impossibility
B Redburn
B Individualism
B Imperialism
B Manifest destiny
B Anthropomorphism
B Hershel Parker
B Antithesis
B Commodity
B Typee
B Narrative
B The Confidence-Man
B Overreaction
B Bildungsroman
B Mardi
B Ownership (psychology)
B Allegory
B Governance
B Moby-Dick
B Monomania
B LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Generals
B White-Jacket
B Romanticism
B Ahab
B Accountability
B Uncle Tom
B The Other Hand
B Author
B Individualism in literature
B Superiority (short story)
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Summary:Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Empire for Liberty -- CHAPTER I: 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
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."
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (264 p)
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:978-0-691-23456-4
Access:Restricted Access
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/9780691234564

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