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." |
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... Manifest Destiny " ) suggested , for instance , that America's claims to Oregon were justified by the “ great experiment of liberty ” to which Providence had appointed it . 19 Less providentially minded , Representative Duncan put the ...
... Manifest Destiny " ) suggested , for instance , that America's claims to Oregon were justified by the “ great experiment of liberty ” to which Providence had appointed it . 19 Less providentially minded , Representative Duncan put the ...
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... Manifest Destiny - understood here not as a specific set of events , but as an informing logic of freedom and dominion , a logic that underwrites not only what Michael Rogin calls the " internal imperialism ” of an expansionist nation ...
... Manifest Destiny - understood here not as a specific set of events , but as an informing logic of freedom and dominion , a logic that underwrites not only what Michael Rogin calls the " internal imperialism ” of an expansionist nation ...
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... Manifest Destiny ” dramatizes this spatialization , for to be “ manifest , ” America's future must become " destiny "which is to say , it must be mapped on a spatial axis , turned into providential design . Only then would that future ...
... Manifest Destiny ” dramatizes this spatialization , for to be “ manifest , ” America's future must become " destiny "which is to say , it must be mapped on a spatial axis , turned into providential design . Only then would that future ...
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... manifest destiny " ( using that phrase once again generically ) , for what empowered both narratives , what made them such effective instruments of governance , was precisely their ability to fashion a " destiny ” out of temporality ...
... manifest destiny " ( using that phrase once again generically ) , for what empowered both narratives , what made them such effective instruments of governance , was precisely their ability to fashion a " destiny ” out of temporality ...
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Contents
Author as Monarch | 42 |
Author as Subject | 76 |
Blaming the Victim | 109 |
Knowing the Victim | 140 |
Personified Accounting | 176 |
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