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Studies of the writing of Herman Melville are often divided among those that address his political, historical, or biographical dimensions and those that offer creative theoretical readings of his texts. In Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman, Michael Jonik offers a series of nuanced and ambitious philosophical readings of Melville that unite these varied approaches. Through a careful reconstruction of Melville's interaction with philosophy, Jonik argues that Melville develops a notion of the 'inhuman' after Spinoza's radically non-anthropocentric and relational thought. Melville's own political philosophy, in turn, actively disassembles differences between humans and nonhumans, and the animate and inanimate. Jonik has us rethink not only how we read Melville, but also how we understand our deeply inhuman condition.

Literature --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Philosophy. --- Theory --- Melville, Herman, --- Melville, Herman --- 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, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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This comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field--the history of letters and letter writing--is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century American politics, history or literature.

American letters --- Letter writing --- Correspondence --- English letter writing --- Letter writing, English --- Writing of letters --- Authorship --- Letters --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- History