[Melville, Herman] Dimock, Wai-chee.

Empire for Liberty – Melville and the Poetics of Individualism.

Princeton, University Press, 1989. 8°. IX, 250 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent – Near fine condition.

Includes: Nation, Self and Personification / Author as Monarch / Author as Subject / Blaming the Victim / Knowing the Victim / Personified Accounting /

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.″

• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691067589
• Inventory Number: 24721AB

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