A Political Companion to Herman Melville

Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. However, political theorists have tended to avoid Melville, turning rather to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to understand the political thought of the American Renaissance. While Melville was not an activist in the traditional sense and his philosophy is notoriously...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081314387X
• ISBN13: 9780813143873
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher