Jennifer Greiman 
Melville’s Democracy [EPUB ebook] 
Radical Figuration and Political Form

Stöd

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, relations, and ways of being—modeling how we can think democracy in political theory today.

Across Melville’s five decades of writing, from his early Pacific novels to his late poetry, Greiman identifies a literary formalism that is radically political and carries the project of democratic theory in new directions. Recovering Melville’s readings in political philosophy and aesthetics, Greiman shows how he engaged with key problems in political theory—the paradox of foundations, the vicious circles of sovereign power, the fragility of the people—to produce a body of radical democratic art and thought. Scenes of green and growing life, circular structures, and images of a groundless world emerge as forms for understanding democracy as a collective project in flux. In Melville’s experimental aesthetics, Greiman finds a significant precursor to the tradition of radical democratic theory in the US and France that emphasizes transience and creativity over the foundations and forms prized by liberalism. Such politics, she argues, are necessarily aesthetic: attuned to material and sensible distinctions, open to new forces of creativity.

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Innehållsförteckning

1. Green Things and Verdant Recesses: Imperial History, State-of-Nature Theory, and the Color of Democracy (Typee)
2. Verdigris: Color, Tone, and Radical Democracy (Pierre)
3. Round Robins and Insphered Spheres: Revolution, Representation, and the Shape of Founding (Omoo and Mardi)
4. ’Circles upon circles’: Sovereignty, Equality, and the Shape of Democracy (Moby-Dick)
5. ’And apoplexy has its fall’: Slavery, Prophecy, and the Gravity of Democracy (’The Bell Tower’ and Battle-Pieces)
6. Unplanted to the Last: Democratic Grass and Groundless Aesthetics (Israel Potter, Clarel and Billy Budd)

Om författaren

Jennifer Greiman is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University.

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Språk Engelska ● Formatera EPUB ● Sidor 350 ● ISBN 9781503634329 ● Filstorlek 5.6 MB ● Utgivare Stanford University Press ● Publicerad 2023 ● Utgåva 1 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 8733450 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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