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EMPIRE FOR LIBERTY IBD

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
02 / 1991
9780691015095
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Sinopsis

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.'