Herman Melville and the American Calling

Herman Melville and the American CallingArgues that Herman Melville's later work anticipates the resurgence of an American exceptionalist ethos underpinning the U. S. led global "war on terror." Oriented by the new Americanist perspective, this book constitutes a rereading of Herman Melville's most prominent fiction after Moby Dick. In contrast to prior readings of this fiction, William V. Spanos's interpretation takes as its point of departure the theme of spectrality precipitated by the

the reasons for areas of similarity and difference in the constitutional politics of Canada and the United States

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this book offers insights into anthropology of work and women's studies

Showing how religious symbols can be true in various qualified senses

and semantics

the way Shakespearean phrases

'Finding Queensland in Australian Cinema' explores gender

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A comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia

and the Sadat and Mubarak eras