Description
Reading his works in dialogue with Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant, Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of Herman Melville (1819-1891) as a major figure in the history of American political thought. Tracing the ship of state metaphor throughout Melville's oeuvre, it charts the evolution of his views on the theory and practice of American democracy, beginning with the Romantic Federalism of Typee and Omoo and ending in the "tragic pragmatism" of Battle-Pieces and Billy Budd, Sailor.
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