Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman MelvilleExamines Herman Melville's use of the history of his family in the writing of his novels and analyzes the political views contained in his fiction. |
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American antebellum fiction , Richard Brod- head has argued , is typically a mixed mode , conjoining novelistic description to allegorical representation and demonological possession . It inhabits , in Poe's words , a " border - ground ...
American antebellum fiction , Richard Brod- head has argued , is typically a mixed mode , conjoining novelistic description to allegorical representation and demonological possession . It inhabits , in Poe's words , a " border - ground ...
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Mardi's de- tachment from particular experience exposed the shortcomings of Young America literary theory . ... Like Duyckinck and the Northeastern Whigs , Mardi criti- cized American expansion and European revolution from the ...
Mardi's de- tachment from particular experience exposed the shortcomings of Young America literary theory . ... Like Duyckinck and the Northeastern Whigs , Mardi criti- cized American expansion and European revolution from the ...
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Eu- rope will " descend " into revolutionary darkness ; America will " ascend " into the promised land . ' The invocation of Aladdin , a commonplace of American technological celebration , had acquired a hysterical edge by 1850.
Eu- rope will " descend " into revolutionary darkness ; America will " ascend " into the promised land . ' The invocation of Aladdin , a commonplace of American technological celebration , had acquired a hysterical edge by 1850.
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The Red Rover | 3 |
POLITICS | 13 |
and Christians | 42 |
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Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville Michael Rogin Vista previa limitada - 1985 |
Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville Michael Rogin Vista previa limitada - 1985 |
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