Book Review: Willing Obedience: Citizens,Soldiers,and the Progress of Consent in America,1776–1898

Hermann Melville , White-Jacket: Or, the World in a Man-of-War, new ed. (Annapolis, MA: Naval Institute Press, 1988).

Hermann Melville , Moby Dick, reissue ed. (New York: Bantam Classics, 1981).

See Christopher Looby , Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996); Christopher Newfield, The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996); David Kazanjian, The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003); Russ Castronovo, Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in Nineteenth-Century America (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001); and James Dawes, The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002).