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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... Master in Chancery , evokes the personal ties of depen- dence between master and apprentice . It recalls a time when apprentices , slowly learning the skills of their trade , looked forward to becoming masters in turn . Major Melvill ...
... Master in Chancery , evokes the personal ties of depen- dence between master and apprentice . It recalls a time when apprentices , slowly learning the skills of their trade , looked forward to becoming masters in turn . Major Melvill ...
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... master a personal interest in his slaves . It thereby replaced “ the mere cool calculations of the head " with the " pure and regenerate heart . " " Man's nature is social , not selfish , " wrote Fitzhugh , “ and he longs and yearns to ...
... master a personal interest in his slaves . It thereby replaced “ the mere cool calculations of the head " with the " pure and regenerate heart . " " Man's nature is social , not selfish , " wrote Fitzhugh , “ and he longs and yearns to ...
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... master in the act of obeying him . The shadow cast by the Negro over Don Benito is not just the specter of revolt ; it is also the stage play of shadows detached from their bodies which has drained the life and color out of his human ...
... master in the act of obeying him . The shadow cast by the Negro over Don Benito is not just the specter of revolt ; it is also the stage play of shadows detached from their bodies which has drained the life and color out of his human ...
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