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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... land of promise ... the Canaan of Mammon , " rose in the American West . " We follow the descending sun , to that land where the light reigns , while Europe is covered with darkness - to the new Eldorado , which was so re- cently the ...
... land of promise ... the Canaan of Mammon , " rose in the American West . " We follow the descending sun , to that land where the light reigns , while Europe is covered with darkness - to the new Eldorado , which was so re- cently the ...
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... land specula- tion , settlement , and commercial agriculture . Cotton , grown by slave labor on land recently expropriated from Indians , paid for the growth of Ameri- can industry . Profits from the Asian trade supplied capital for New ...
... land specula- tion , settlement , and commercial agriculture . Cotton , grown by slave labor on land recently expropriated from Indians , paid for the growth of Ameri- can industry . Profits from the Asian trade supplied capital for New ...
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... land before God's chosen came from Egypt . The line from the Pequods through Fort Stanwix pointed forward - by way of Andrew Jackson , New Orleans , and Indian removal— to the war against Mexico . " What was America in 1492 but a loose ...
... land before God's chosen came from Egypt . The line from the Pequods through Fort Stanwix pointed forward - by way of Andrew Jackson , New Orleans , and Indian removal— to the war against Mexico . " What was America in 1492 but a loose ...
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