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Melville's permanent riotocracy

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posted on 2023-06-08, 20:27 authored by Michael JonikMichael Jonik
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 Political Companion to Herman Melville, Melville's writing "strikes a note of dissonance in the pre-established harmonies of the American political tradition." This unique volume explores Melville's politics by surveying the full range of his work-from Typee (1846) to the posthumously published Billy Budd (1924).

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  • Published

Publisher

University of Kentucky Press

Page range

229-258

Pages

456.0

Book title

A political companion to Herman Melville

Place of publication

Lexington, Kentucky

ISBN

9780813143873

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  • English Publications

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  • Yes

Editors

Jason Frank

Legacy Posted Date

2015-03-26

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