SUBVERSIVE GENEALOGYKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013 M08 28 - 368 páginas In this major reconsideration of Herman Melville’s life and work, Michael Paul Rogin shows that Melville’s novels are connected both to the important issues of his time and to the exploits of his patrician and politically prominent family—which, three generations after its Revolutionary War heroes, produced an alcoholic, a bankrupt, and a suicide. Rogin argues that a history of Melville’s fiction, and of the society represented in it, is also a history of the writer’s family. He describes how that family first engaged Melville in and then isolated him from American political and social life. Melville’s brother and father-in-law are shown to link Moby-Dick to the crisis over expansion and slavery. White-Jacket and Billy Budd, which concern shipboard conflicts between masters and seamen, are related to an execution at sea in which Melville’s cousin played a decisive part. The figure of Melville’s father haunts The Confidence Man, whose subject is the triumph of the marketplace and the absence of authority. A provocative study of one of our supreme literary artists. |
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... Albany . There she received invitations to balls , like the one honoring Admiral Perry , the hero of Lake Erie in the 1812 War . She received no invitations in New York , her husband fumed , " while my landlady's Daughter bedecked in ...
... Albany . There she received invitations to balls , like the one honoring Admiral Perry , the hero of Lake Erie in the 1812 War . She received no invitations in New York , her husband fumed , " while my landlady's Daughter bedecked in ...
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... Albany to escape creditors he could not pay . There he could read every day , on the front page of the Albany Argus , a list of bankrupts like himself . The Argus provided a daily reminder of the public notoriety of his fall . New York ...
... Albany to escape creditors he could not pay . There he could read every day , on the front page of the Albany Argus , a list of bankrupts like himself . The Argus provided a daily reminder of the public notoriety of his fall . New York ...
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... Albany , and from there wrote Shaw that even should Allan recover his physical health , " he would live , a Maniac . " 44 " Reputation , " Allan Melvill had written , was " far more valuable than fame or riches . " His " inheritance for ...
... Albany , and from there wrote Shaw that even should Allan recover his physical health , " he would live , a Maniac . " 44 " Reputation , " Allan Melvill had written , was " far more valuable than fame or riches . " His " inheritance for ...
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... Albany . This one- hundred - fifty - year - old structure had symbolized the entry of the Gansevoorts into the urban , Dutch patriciate , which dominated colonial Albany politics and economics . Piety , family and work knitted this Albany ...
... Albany . This one- hundred - fifty - year - old structure had symbolized the entry of the Gansevoorts into the urban , Dutch patriciate , which dominated colonial Albany politics and economics . Piety , family and work knitted this Albany ...
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... Albany Gansevoort was a brewer, and the dome reminded Albany residents of his brew kettle turned upside down.48 Stanwix Hall asserted a prominence the Gansevoorts could not sustain. Albany Dutch patricians were in decline; the heavy ...
... Albany Gansevoort was a brewer, and the dome reminded Albany residents of his brew kettle turned upside down.48 Stanwix Hall asserted a prominence the Gansevoorts could not sustain. Albany Dutch patricians were in decline; the heavy ...
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Gansevoort Melville Cannibals and Christians | |
SOCIETY | |
THE STATE | |
The Somers Mutiny and Billy Budd Melville in the Penal | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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 |
Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville Michael Paul Rogin Vista de fragmentos - 1983 |
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Ahab Ahab's Albany Allan Melvill American antebellum authority Bartleby Bartleby's Battle-Pieces Benito Cereno Billy Budd Billy's Boston brother buttons called captain characters Civil confidence Confidence-Man costume crew custom house death democratic dome Duyckinck escape father flogging freedom Gansevoort Melville Glendinning Guert Gansevoort Hawthorne heart Heimert 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 Quarterly 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 Theodore Parker Thomas Melvill Thoreau Tocqueville Vere Vere's Webster whale whip White-Jacket York Young America