Melville's democracy : radical figuration and political form /
For Herman Melville, the instability of democracy held tremendous creative potential. Examining the centrality of political thought to Melville's oeuvre, Jennifer Greiman argues that Melville's densely figurative aesthetics give form to a radical reimagining of democratic foundations, rela...
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2023].
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Table of Contents:
- Verdure, imperial history, and state-of-nature theory
- Verdigris and radical democracy
- Round robins and founding violence
- Circles and sovereignty
- Gravity, slavery, and political prophecy
- Unplanted to the last.