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Comparative literature --- Russian literature --- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor M. --- Melville, Herman

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Wai-chee Dimock approaches Herman Melville not as a timeless genius, but as a historical figure caught in the politics of an imperial nation and an "imperial self." She challenges our customary view by demonstrating a link between the individualism that enabled Melville to write as a sovereign author and the nationalism that allowed America to grow into what Jefferson hoped would be an "empire for liberty."

Individualism in literature --- Individualism in literature. --- American literature --- Thematology --- Melville, Herman --- Melville, Herman, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation --- personnification. --- individualisme --- personnification --- Melville, Herman. --- English fiction. --- English literature --- Melvill, German --- Melville, Hermann --- Meville, Herman --- Melvil, Cherman --- Mai-erh-wei-erh, Ho-erh-man --- Melṿil, Herman --- Tarnmoor, Salvator R. --- מלוויל, הרמן, --- מלויל, הרמן, --- ميلڤيل، هرمن، --- 麥爾維爾, --- Virginian spending July in Vermont, --- Melvill, Herman,

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Robert Levine has examined the American romance in a historical context. His book offers a fresh reading of the genre, establishing its importance to American culture between the founding of the republic and the Civil war. With convincing historical and literary detail, Levine shows that anxieties about various subversive elements - French revolutionaries, secret societies, Catholic immigrants, African slaves - are central to the fictional worlds of Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne and Melville. Ormond, The Bravo, The Blithedale Romance, and Benito Cereno are persuasively explicated by Levine to demonstrate that the romance addressed many of the same conflicts and ideals that gave rise to the American republic. Americans conceived of America as a romance, and their romances dramatised the historical conditions of the culture, The fear that conspiracies would subvert the order and integrity of the new nation were recurrent and widespread; Levine makes us see that these fears informed the works of our major romance writers from the turn of the century until the Civil War.

American fiction --- Conspiracies in literature --- Romanticism --- History and criticism --- Brown, Charles Brockden, --- Cooper, James Fenimore, --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, --- Melville, Herman, --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Conspiracies in literature. --- History and criticism.

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American poetry --- Poésie américaine --- Bibliography --- History and criticism --- Bibliographie --- Histoire et critique --- Poésie américaine --- 19th century --- Bryant, William Cullen --- Criticism and interpretation --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo --- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth --- Whittier, John Greenleaf --- Poe, Edgar Allan --- Holmes, Oliver Wendell --- Very, Jones --- Thoreau, Henry David --- Lowell, James Russell --- Melville, Herman --- Whitman, Walt --- Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard --- Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth --- Lanier, Sidney --- Crane, Stephen --- Dunbar, Paul Laurence

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John McWilliams's 1990 book was the first thorough account of the many attempts to fashion an epic literature (the anxiously anticipated 'American Epic') from a wide range of potentially heroic New World subjects. At the outset, McWilliams considers the many problems - cultural, political and literary' - of adapting Enlightenment views of republican progress to a genre that had traditionally celebrated the greatness of warriors. After a survey of the many epic poems written during and after the American Revolution, McWilliams shows how and why the epic had to be transformed from imitative narrative poetry into the new, open genres of prose history (Irving, Prescott and Parkman), fictional romance (Cooper and Melville) and free verse (Whitman). Believing that reviews are an important and slighted agent of literary change, McWilliams has written his book in the form of chronological literary history. His book, however, is no march of dates within tired categories. The American Epic suggests that imaginative writers of the Romantic era were in fact far less proscriptive about the boundaries of literary genre than many a twentieth-century writer and scholar.

Poetry --- Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Epic literature [American ] --- History and criticism --- Revolutionary period, 1775-1783 --- 1783-1850 --- Barlow, Joel --- Criticism and interpretation --- Cooper, James Fenimore --- Dwight, Timothy --- Melville, Herman --- Prescott, William Hickling --- Simms, William Gilmore --- Trumbull, John --- Whitman, Walt --- Irving, Washington --- Parkman, Francis --- Paulding, James Kirke --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Epic literature, American --- American epic literature --- History and criticism. --- United States --- Intellectual life