Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism

ISBN-13: 9780691015095 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 264 str.

Wai-Chee Dimock

Opis

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."