{"product_id":"handsomely-done-9780810139749","title":"Handsomely Done","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrings together leading and emerging scholars from comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies to examine Melville's works in light of their ongoing afterlife and seemingly permanent contemporaneity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Handsomely Done, Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 1. Melville and the Limits of the Political\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Moby-Dick and Perpetual War, Sorin Radu Cucu and Roland Végsö\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Bartleby Politics, Emily Apter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Land and See: The Theatricality of the Political in Schmitt and Melville, Walter Johnston\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. The Coward’s Paradox: Pip’s Weak Resistance, Barbara Natalie Nagel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. From Lima to Attica: Benito Cereno, the Nixon Recordings, and the 1971, Prison Uprising, Paul Downes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart 2. Audio-Visual Melville\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. “A Sound Not Easily to Be Verbally Rendered”: The Literary Acoustic of Billy Budd, David Copenhafer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Necrophilology: Still\/Hearing Bartleby, Jacques Lezra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. Whaling in the Abyss between Melville and Zeppelin: Alex Itin’s Orson Whales, John Hamilton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. The Confidence-Image (Melville, Godard, Deleuze), Peter Szendy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. Belle Trouvaille: Aesthetics and Philology in Billy Budd (after Beau Travail), Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. A-religion, Jean-Luc Nancy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038270062935,"sku":"9780810139749","price":94.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780810139749.jpg?v=1750939720","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/handsomely-done-9780810139749","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}