Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman MelvilleExamines 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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The citizens of 1848 , wrote Marx , put on the borrowed clothes of their ancestors . They " staged a play about the French Revolution , " Tocqueville argued , and their " provincial troupe " hid the " terrible originality " of events .
The citizens of 1848 , wrote Marx , put on the borrowed clothes of their ancestors . They " staged a play about the French Revolution , " Tocqueville argued , and their " provincial troupe " hid the " terrible originality " of events .
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Greylock , he wrote , was surrounded by its little hills like a " grand Congress of Vienna . " This assimilation of American nature to European reaction was not what purveyors of an American natu- ral aristocracy had in mind .
Greylock , he wrote , was surrounded by its little hills like a " grand Congress of Vienna . " This assimilation of American nature to European reaction was not what purveyors of an American natu- ral aristocracy had in mind .
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Persia or the Great Khan of Tartary comes to Albany by the night - boat [ Melville wrote Abraham Lansing ] -him meet on the wharf and with sal- voes of artillery - but not a Custom House Inspector . " 3 As Ishmael became office worker ...
Persia or the Great Khan of Tartary comes to Albany by the night - boat [ Melville wrote Abraham Lansing ] -him meet on the wharf and with sal- voes of artillery - but not a Custom House Inspector . " 3 As Ishmael became office worker ...
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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 |
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