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."
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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."
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Fine. Trade soft cover in blue wraps with Hicks Peaceable Kingdom painting to front, 8vo. ix+250pp. Index, endnotes. Fine. Light creases from former dogears in endnotes section. Light foxing just beginning lower page fore edges. Else as new: bright, tight, sharp and unmarked.
