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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... slavery . ' 1167 Shaw tried to stop the spread of slavery . It was , he wrote , " utterly irrec- oncilable with any notion of natural justice , that one set of men may thus rob another of all ... rights . " Shaw was more tolerant toward ...
... slavery . ' 1167 Shaw tried to stop the spread of slavery . It was , he wrote , " utterly irrec- oncilable with any notion of natural justice , that one set of men may thus rob another of all ... rights . " Shaw was more tolerant toward ...
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... slavery and the others tolerated it , but all wished the issue would go away . They inherited the ra- cial roots of Jackson's politics without his ability to exploit them . Young America expansionists , following Jackson , tried to bury ...
... slavery and the others tolerated it , but all wished the issue would go away . They inherited the ra- cial roots of Jackson's politics without his ability to exploit them . Young America expansionists , following Jackson , tried to bury ...
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... slavery . Moby Dick is the gorgon who gives birth to Ahab's vengeance and will destroy his crew.67 Southern fire - eaters welcomed the destruction of the American ship of state . They made the Wilmot Proviso , which would have ...
... slavery . Moby Dick is the gorgon who gives birth to Ahab's vengeance and will destroy his crew.67 Southern fire - eaters welcomed the destruction of the American ship of state . They made the Wilmot Proviso , which would have ...
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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