Friday, December 9, 2pm, Prof. Jennifer GREIMAN, Wake Forest University, "Unplanted to the last: Melville’s Democracy and the Poetics of Grass"
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In a famous 1851 letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville describes his “ruthless democracy” as a principle of radical egalitarianism joined to a process of transience and transformation, which he figures through the cycle of grasses growing, going to seed, rooting, and growing again. From Pierre and Israel Potter in the 1850s to Clarel in the 1870s and Weeds and Wildings published a year before his 1891 death, Melville’s grasses become a key register of both the macro-politics and mic...