Melville's DemocracyFor Herman Melville, the instability of democracy held tremendous creative potential. Examining the centrality of political thought to Melville's oeuvre, Jennifer Greiman argues that Melville's densely figurative aesthetics give form to a radical reimagining of democratic foundations, relations, and ways of beingmodeling how we can think democracy in political theory today. Across Melville's five decades of writing, from his early Pacific novels to