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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... Ishmael, associates him with the wilderness. Puritan piety has moved into nature; Wilder's name signifies society's failure at integration. He is a foundling to remind us that the inheritance of the ancestors has split into orphaned ...
... Ishmael, associates him with the wilderness. Puritan piety has moved into nature; Wilder's name signifies society's failure at integration. He is a foundling to remind us that the inheritance of the ancestors has split into orphaned ...
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... Ishmael when he ships on board the Pequod . Ahab is the pirate in Moby - Dick . In both stories a demonic captain exercises magnetic ascendancy over the foundling protagonist and the entire crew . Mutinies occur on other ships , not the ...
... Ishmael when he ships on board the Pequod . Ahab is the pirate in Moby - Dick . In both stories a demonic captain exercises magnetic ascendancy over the foundling protagonist and the entire crew . Mutinies occur on other ships , not the ...
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... Ishmael fancies that his sailing is announced in the press alongside a " Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States . " Neither Melville's voyage on the Acushnet nor his brother's politics were laid at Cooper's ...
... Ishmael fancies that his sailing is announced in the press alongside a " Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States . " Neither Melville's voyage on the Acushnet nor his brother's politics were laid at Cooper's ...
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... Ishmael at the end of Moby - Dick , is found by his real mother.15 The marriage does not initiate a new family , moreover , but restores an old one . Gertrude has called Mrs. Wyllys her " mother " ; she marries her governess's son . Mrs ...
... Ishmael at the end of Moby - Dick , is found by his real mother.15 The marriage does not initiate a new family , moreover , but restores an old one . Gertrude has called Mrs. Wyllys her " mother " ; she marries her governess's son . Mrs ...
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... Ishmael , sitting upon the ruins of Baalbeck , himself a ruin . " 83 The biblical Ishmael , to whom Cass adverted , was cast out by his father . By making him loyal to the patriarch , Cass implicitly substituted Ishmael for the obedient ...
... Ishmael , sitting upon the ruins of Baalbeck , himself a ruin . " 83 The biblical Ishmael , to whom Cass adverted , was cast out by his father . By making him loyal to the patriarch , Cass implicitly substituted Ishmael for the obedient ...
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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