American Risorgimento

Although Herman Melville is typically considered one of America's earliest cosmopolitan writers, scholarship has focused primarily on his involvement with the South Seas, England, and the Holy Land. In American Risorgimento: Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy, Dennis Berthold extends Melville's transnational vision both geographically and historically by examining his many references to Italy and Rome in the context of the Risorgimento, Italy's long quest for independence and political unity.

Dennis Berthold is professor of English at Texas A&M University, College Station.

List of Figures	p. ix
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Italy in the American Imagination: A Divided Vision	p. 29
Mardi's Dantean Intertext	p. 60
Fleeing Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic	p. 95
Machiavellian Aesthetics: From Pierre to The Confidence-Man	p. 132
The Triumph of Nationalism: Early Poems and Battle-Pieces	p. 175
"The Italian Turn of Thought": Clarel and Late Writings	p. 227
Works Cited	p. 265
Index	p. 281
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