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Abjection
Accountability
Accounting
Adage
Ahab
Allegory
American philosophy
Anguish
Anthropomorphism
Antithesis
Aphorism
Author
Author_Wai Chee Dimock
Bildungsroman
Capitalism
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Circular reasoning
Commodity
Conceit
Corporatism
Criticism of capitalism
Culture and Society
Despotism
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Fiction
Governance
Hershel Parker
Ideology
Imperialism
Impossibility
Individualism
Intentionality
Invisible hand
Jeremiad
Kith (Poul Anderson)
Legal fiction
Liberalism
Manifest destiny
Mardi
Marxism
Melodrama
Metonymy
Moby-Dick
Monomania
Multitude
Myth
Narrative
Omoo
Overreaction
Ownership (psychology)
Patrician (ancient Rome)
Polonius
Postmodernism
Predestination
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Redburn
Robert Nozick
Romanticism
Slavery
Sovereignty
Subversion
Sultanism
Superiority (short story)
The Confidence-Man
The Other Hand
Thomas Kuhn
Thought
Two Treatises of Government
Typee
Uncle Tom
Walter Benjamin
Warfare
White-Jacket
Product details
- ISBN 9780691015095
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 21 Feb 1991
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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."
