Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman MelvilleKnopf, 1983 - 354 páginas Examines 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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... Henry's father , Peter Gansevoort , expected Henry to enter his law office . There was friction between the father and the son , however , and Henry re- belled by ill health against the career his father had chosen for him . He re ...
... Henry's father , Peter Gansevoort , expected Henry to enter his law office . There was friction between the father and the son , however , and Henry re- belled by ill health against the career his father had chosen for him . He re ...
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... Henry Gansevoort's career . Melville vis- ited his cousin at the front in 1864. Colonel Gansevoort had been assigned to capture John Mosby's guerrillas , and Melville joined one cavalry raid with him . Henry's soldiers skirmished with ...
... Henry Gansevoort's career . Melville vis- ited his cousin at the front in 1864. Colonel Gansevoort had been assigned to capture John Mosby's guerrillas , and Melville joined one cavalry raid with him . Henry's soldiers skirmished with ...
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... Henry's actual life taught a more complicated lesson , one present in many of the other Battle - Pieces . Henry Gansevoort's cavalry jacket did not make a boy of him , as it did of the young scouts in Melville's poem . He was a survivor ...
... Henry's actual life taught a more complicated lesson , one present in many of the other Battle - Pieces . Henry Gansevoort's cavalry jacket did not make a boy of him , as it did of the young scouts in Melville's poem . He was a survivor ...
Contenido
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 |
Términos y frases comunes
Ahab Ahab's Albany Allan Melvill American antebellum authority Bartleby Battle-Pieces Benito Cereno Billy Budd Billy's Boston brother buttons called captain Cass Civil confidence Confidence-Man costume crew Custom House death democratic dome dream Duyckinck escape father flogging freedom Ganse Gansevoort Melville Glendinning Guert Gansevoort Hawthorne heart Henry Herman Melville hero human Ibid imagined Indian Isabel Ishmael Israel Potter Jackson lawyer Lemuel Shaw Lincoln Mackenzie Mackenzie's Manifest Destiny Maria Melvill Marx masquerade Melvill to Peter Melville wrote Melville's fiction Moby-Dick mother Mount Greylock mutiny narrator nature Neversink novel Omoo Parker paternal Pequod Peter Gansevoort Philip Spencer Pierre Pierre's pirate poem political Red Rover Redburn replaced Revolution revolutionary romance sailors San Dominick savage Shaw's ship slave slavery SM/H social society Somers Stanwix stone story symbols Tartarus Thomas Melvill Thoreau tion Tocqueville Union Vere Vere's Webster whale whip White-Jacket York Young America