By Jason Frank,Shannon L. Mariotti,Kennan Ferguson,George Shulman,Susan J. McWilliams,Thomas Dumm,Sophia Mihic,Roger W. Hecht,Kevin Attell,Michael Jonik,Lawrie Balfour,Roger Berkowitz,Jennifer Culbert
ISBN-10: 081314387X
ISBN-13: 9780813143873
Herman Melville is generally thought of to be certainly one of America's maximum authors, and numerous literary theorists and critics have studied his lifestyles and paintings. although, political theorists have tended to prevent Melville, turning particularly to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to appreciate the political considered the yank Renaissance. whereas Melville was once now not an activist within the conventional feel and his philosophy is notoriously tough to categorize, his paintings is however deeply political in its personal correct. As editor Jason Frank notes in his creation to A Political significant other to Herman Melville, Melville's writing "strikes a word of dissonance within the pre-established harmonies of the yank political tradition."
This special quantity explores Melville's politics by way of surveying the total diversity of his paintings -- from Typee (1846) to the posthumously released Billy Budd (1924). The members supply historic context to Melville's writings and position him in dialog with political and theoretical debates, interpreting his dating to transcendentalism and modern continental philosophy and addressing his work's relevance to issues similar to nineteenth-century imperialism, twentieth-century criminal conception, the anti-rent wars of the 1840s, and the civil rights stream. From those analyses emerges a brand new and hard portrait of Melville as a political philosopher of the 1st order, person who will identify his significance not just for nineteenth-century American political proposal but additionally for political idea extra broadly.
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A Political Companion to Herman Melville (Political Companions to Great American Authors) by Jason Frank,Shannon L. Mariotti,Kennan Ferguson,George Shulman,Susan J. McWilliams,Thomas Dumm,Sophia Mihic,Roger W. Hecht,Kevin Attell,Michael Jonik,Lawrie Balfour,Roger Berkowitz,Jennifer Culbert
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