Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of IndividualismWai 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
Author as Monarch | 42 |
Author as Subject | 76 |
Blaming the Victim | 109 |
Knowing the Victim | 140 |
Personified Accounting | 176 |
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