Herman Melville and the politics of the inhuman
- Submitting institution
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University of Sussex
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 129458_74673
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108420921
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman (CUP, 2018) is an innovative study of Melville’s work which reconstructs his interaction with philosophy and positions it in relation to the political, historical and biographical contexts of his writing. In particular, the book develops a notion of the 'inhuman' after Spinoza's radically non-anthropocentric thought and explores how Melville's political philosophy actively disassembles differences between humans/nonhumans, and animate/inanimate. Offering both a series of revisionary and interdisciplinary readings of Melville's key texts, this major book (276pp) is based on many years research in archives and libraries on both sides of the Atlantic.
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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