ENGL 4600 - [Melville]

(crosslisted) AMST 4600
(HB) (LA-AS)

Not offered 2017-2018. 4 credits. Student option grading.

E. Cheyfitz.

Herman Melville is one of America’s most trenchant social, political, and economic critics. Our study of Melville’s fiction will analyze his critique of central national and international issues the effects of which are still with us. These issues are focused in the capitalist/imperialist matrix of settler colonialism with its machinery of slavery, Native American genocide, patriarchy, and poverty.