Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman (Hardcover)

Introduction: Melville's inhumanities; 1. 'The constituents of a chaos': character, materiality and ethopolitics in Moby-Dick; 2. A geology of murmurs: Pierre's inhuman transformations; 3. Outlandish beings, outlandish politics: 'The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles'; 4. Misanthropology: commonality and its discontents in The Confidence-Man; 5. 'Where wild rocks are set': character and the space of Clarel; 6. Form, relation, and dissolution in Melville's later poetry; Coda: impulsive Billy Budd.