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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... custom - house man's suspicion of Black Guinea is met with resent- ment . " Have you no charity , friend ? " asks a Methodist minister who has served in the Mexican War . " Charity is one thing , and truth is another , " re- sponds the ...
... custom - house man's suspicion of Black Guinea is met with resent- ment . " Have you no charity , friend ? " asks a Methodist minister who has served in the Mexican War . " Charity is one thing , and truth is another , " re- sponds the ...
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... house and the custom - house are only valued for their relation to trade . " " In an institution like this , " Hawthorne wrote of the cus- tom house in which he was an inspector , " officers are appointed to subserve their own profit ...
... house and the custom - house are only valued for their relation to trade . " " In an institution like this , " Hawthorne wrote of the cus- tom house in which he was an inspector , " officers are appointed to subserve their own profit ...
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... [ Custom House ] Record Room . " Actually , magazine articles brought him back to old naval records he had used years be- fore . ) 17 Like Hawthorne , Melville could not tell his story until he had left " the dull and commonplace " custom - ...
... [ Custom House ] Record Room . " Actually , magazine articles brought him back to old naval records he had used years be- fore . ) 17 Like Hawthorne , Melville could not tell his story until he had left " the dull and commonplace " custom - ...
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