Articles by Jennifer Greiman

August 3, 2023

🦋 Herman Melville’s ruthless democracy

Jennifer Greiman

Herman Melville’s 'ruthless democracy' is a creative performance, argues Jennifer Greiman, which guides Melville’s experimental prose and poetry. This sought to reimagine democratic relations, possibilities, and ways of being as matters for aesthetic thought and work – with strong implications for political theory

Jennifer Greiman

Professor of English, Wake Forest University

Jennifer is associate editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies.

Her articles have appeared in The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville, The New Melville Studies, Timelines of American Literature, J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-century Americanists, Leviathan, REAL, and Textual Practices.

She tweets @GreimanJennifer

Melville’s Democracy: Radical Figuration and Political Form
Stanford University Press, 2023

Democracy’s Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing
Fordham University Press, 2010

The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire
co-editor, with Paul Stasi
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

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🦋 Herman Melville’s ruthless democracy

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