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Empire for liberty : Melville and the poetics of individualism

Author:Wai-chee Dimock

Summary:Approaching Herman Melville as a figure caught in the politics of a nation and an "imperial self", the author aims to challenge our 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".

Print Book, English, ©1989

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Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©1989

Genre:Criticism, interpretation, etc

Physical Description:ix, 250 pages ; 23 cm

ISBN:

9780691067582, 9780691015095, 0691067589, 0691015090

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:18190941

Subjects:

Criticism, interpretation, etc

English fiction

Individualism in literature

Individualisme dans la littérature

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Criticism and interpretation

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Critique et interprétation

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