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210557
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b121983
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A Political Companion to Herman Melville /\ edited by Jason Frank.
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| Series Statement
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Political companions to great American authors.
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1 online resource (444 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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9780813143897
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: 0813143896
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: 9780813143880
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: 0813143888
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: 1306118166
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: 9781306118163
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: 9780813143873
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: 081314387X
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Series Foreword; Introduction: American Tragedy; Chapter 1. Who Eats Whom?; Chapter 2. ""The End Was in the Beginning""; Chapter 3. Chasing the Whale; Chapter 4. Ahab, American; Chapter 5. ""Mighty Lordships in the Heart of the Republic""; Chapter 6. Melville and the Cadaverous Triumphs of Transcendentalism; Chapter 7. Language and Labor, Silence and Statis; Chapter 8. Melville's ""Permanent Riotocracy""; Chapter 9. What Babo Saw; Chapter 10. ""Follow Your Leader""; Chapter 11. The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating Revisited.
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Chapter 12. Melville's War Poetry and the Human FormChapter 13. The Lyre of Orpheus; Chapter 14. Melville's Law; Acknowledgments; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index; Series Page.
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| Abstract
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Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. However, political theorists have tended to avoid Melville, turning rather to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to understand the political thought of the American Renaissance. While Melville was not an activist in the traditional sense and his philosophy is notoriously difficult to categorize, his work is nevertheless deeply political in its own right. As editor Jason Frank notes in his introduction to A Pol.
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Melville, Herman,1819-1891-- Political and social views.
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Politics and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.3
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Frank, Jason A.
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