This challenging and timely study demonstrates that the problems Melville faced as a writer - the relationship between politics and aesthetics and the represent
For Herman Melville, the instability of democracy held tremendous creative potential. Examining the centrality of political thought to Melville's oeuvre, Jennif
American literature is profoundly, almost inescapably political. America's most thoughtful authors long ago realized that it was through the novel, the novella,
This reference work covers both Herman Melville's life and writings. It includes a biography and detailed information on his works, on the important themes cont