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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... institutions - banks , in- surance companies , charitable trusts - reinforced by extensive marriage and kinship ties — rose to knit the upper class together . The basis for the Boston elite shifted from extended family to Brahmin class ...
... institutions - banks , in- surance companies , charitable trusts - reinforced by extensive marriage and kinship ties — rose to knit the upper class together . The basis for the Boston elite shifted from extended family to Brahmin class ...
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... institutions whose inmates were to learn about love . Institutional interiors , walling off the danger of instinctual im- pulses , were empty and barren . Asylums did not feminize American society ; they moved from an authoritarian to a ...
... institutions whose inmates were to learn about love . Institutional interiors , walling off the danger of instinctual im- pulses , were empty and barren . Asylums did not feminize American society ; they moved from an authoritarian to a ...
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... institutions have a potent digestion , and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in , however originally alien . " ( 269 ) " On this Western Hemisphere all tribes and people , " said Redburn , " are forming into ...
... institutions have a potent digestion , and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in , however originally alien . " ( 269 ) " On this Western Hemisphere all tribes and people , " said Redburn , " are forming into ...
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