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Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville brings together leading and emerging scholars from comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies to examine Melville's works in light of their ongoing afterlife and seemingly permanent contemporaneity. The volume explores the curious fact that the works of this most linguistically complex and seemingly most "untranslatable" of authors have yielded such compelling translations and adaptations as well as the related tendency of Melville's writing to flash into relevance at every new historical-political conjuncture.
The volume thus engages not only Melville-reception across media (Jorge Luis Borges, John Huston, Jean-Luc Godard, Led Zeppelin, Claire Denis) but also the Melvillean resonances and echoes of various political events and movements, such as the Attica Uprising, the Red Army Faction, Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter. This consideration of Melville's afterlife opens onto theorizations of intermediality, un/translatability, and material intensity even as it also continually faces the most concrete and pressing questions of history and politics.
Handsomely Done presents readers with a Melville who is a philologist and even a cinematographer, but also a potent political thinker, a thinker of capital and credit as well as of resistance, insubordination, and escape.
Contents
Introduction: Handsomely Done, Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
Part 1. Melville and the Limits of the Political
1. Moby-Dick and Perpetual War, Sorin Radu Cucu and Roland Végsö
2. Bartleby Politics, Emily Apter
3. Land and See: The Theatricality of the Political in Schmitt and Melville, Walter Johnston
4. The Coward's Paradox: Pip's Weak Resistance, Barbara Natalie Nagel
5. From Lima to Attica: Benito Cereno, the Nixon Recordings, and the 1971, Prison Uprising, Paul Downes
Part 2. Audio-Visual Melville
6. "A Sound Not Easily to Be Verbally Rendered": The Literary Acoustic of Billy Budd, David Copenhafer
7. Necrophilology: Still/Hearing Bartleby, Jacques Lezra
8. Whaling in the Abyss between Melville and Zeppelin: Alex Itin's Orson Whales, John Hamilton
9. The Confidence-Image (Melville, Godard, Deleuze), Peter Szendy
10. Belle Trouvaille: Aesthetics and Philology in Billy Budd (after Beau Travail), Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz
11. A-religion, Jean-Luc Nancy
