ENGLISH

Herman melville and the politics of the inhuman

By Michael , Jonik

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge Univ Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781108420921, 9781108355667, 1108420923
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (21731029 bytes)
Pages
\280
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

Introduction: Melville's inhumanities 1. 'The constituents of a chaos': character, materiality and ethopolitics in Moby-Dick 2. A geology of murmurs: Pierre's inhuman transformations 3. Outlandish beings, outlandish politics: 'The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles' 4. Misanthropology: commonality and its discontents in The Confidence-Man 5. 'Where wild rocks are set': character and the space of Clarel 6. Form, relation, and dissolution in Melville's later poetry Coda: impulsive Billy Budd.

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