Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception - Herman Melville''s Billy Budd, Sailor

Informationen zum Autor William V. Spanos is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Binghamton, and author of The Errant Art of Moby-Dick The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies and Herman Melville and the American Calling: The Fiction after Moby-Dick , 1851-1857 . Klappentext The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception illustrates that Melville, in his own time, was aware of the negative consequences of the deeply inscribed exceptionalist American identity and recognized the essential domestic and foreign policy issues that inform the country's national security program today. Zusammenfassung The Exceptionalist State and the State of Exception illustrates that Melville! in his own time! was aware of the negative consequences of the deeply inscribed exceptionalist American identity and recognized the essential domestic and foreign policy issues that inform the country's national security program today.

Product details

• Authors: William V Spanos, William V. Spanos
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2011
• EAN: 9780801898495
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-9849-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Rethinking Theory; Rethinking Theory; Rethinking Theory (Hardcover)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies