id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_2orb3mzq3vgwzgfweaaatvqcpu M. Warner What Like a Bullet Can Undeceive? 2003.0 14 .pdf application/pdf 6147 352 64 Melville's "Shiloh," was written in New York at a similar time of violent crisis. 1. Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, ed. The Civil War was in many ways a special case of official state violence, not is the modern state, which by monopolizing and delegating violence, delegitimates it in civil life. to think about violence outside the redemptive frame of state delegation, the poem opens with a pastoral landscape, a redemptive backdrop against which violence can appear only as scandal.9 As in poems such as "Malvern Hill," Melville Lawrence Buell, "American Civil War Poetry and the Meaning of Literary Commodification: Whitman, Melville, and Others," in Reciprocal Influences: Literary Production, Distribution, and Consumption in America, ed. Hopkins University Press, 1996); and Rosanna Warren, "Dark Knowledge: Melville's Poems of the Stanton Garner, The Civil War World of Herman Melville (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, terms as the Cold War reading of Melville, in which the American individual is ./cache/work_2orb3mzq3vgwzgfweaaatvqcpu.pdf ./txt/work_2orb3mzq3vgwzgfweaaatvqcpu.txt