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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... Lemuel Shaw, had been engaged to Melvill's sister.20 She died before the marriage, but Shaw remained intimate with her brother for twenty years. During that time Shaw was appointed chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. He ...
... Lemuel Shaw, had been engaged to Melvill's sister.20 She died before the marriage, but Shaw remained intimate with her brother for twenty years. During that time Shaw was appointed chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. He ...
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... Lemuel Shaw, Melville's father-in-law, shared that hope, but he did not simply look to the past. Shaw played a central role first in developing a legal, communal rubric for capitalist expansion, and then in meeting the threat to the ...
... Lemuel Shaw, Melville's father-in-law, shared that hope, but he did not simply look to the past. Shaw played a central role first in developing a legal, communal rubric for capitalist expansion, and then in meeting the threat to the ...
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... Lemuel Shaw, who remained in Boston, would prosper from such support. Allan Melvill would suffer from its absence.24 New York lacked institutions transcending family and marketplace that successfully stabilized and institutionalized ...
... Lemuel Shaw, who remained in Boston, would prosper from such support. Allan Melvill would suffer from its absence.24 New York lacked institutions transcending family and marketplace that successfully stabilized and institutionalized ...
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... Lemuel Shaw, and from other creditors. He was confined to debtor's prison when his father refused to assume any more.
... Lemuel Shaw, and from other creditors. He was confined to debtor's prison when his father refused to assume any more.
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... Lemuel Shaw to court, and Shaw's friend, Daniel Webster, successfully defended them against the charges of collusion. The scandal nearly cost Major Melvill reappointment as the inspector of the Boston Custom House.41 But Allan damaged ...
... Lemuel Shaw to court, and Shaw's friend, Daniel Webster, successfully defended them against the charges of collusion. The scandal nearly cost Major Melvill reappointment as the inspector of the Boston Custom House.41 But Allan damaged ...
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SOCIETY | |
Herman Melvilles Eighteenth Brumaire | |
THE STATE | |
The Somers Mutiny and Billy Budd Melville in | |
Notes | |
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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 |
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 captain Civil confidence Confidence-Man conflict Cooper’s costume crew custom house death democratic dome Duyckinck escape father flogging freedom 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 man’s Manifest Destiny Maria Melvill Marx masquerade Melvill to Peter Melville wrote Melville’s Melville’s fiction Moby Moby-Dick mother Mount Greylock mutiny narrator nature Neversink novel O’Sullivan Omoo Parker paternal Pequod Peter Gansevoort Philip Spencer Pierre Pierre’s poem Red Rover Redburn replaced Revolution revolutionary romance sailors San Dominick savage Shaw’s ship slave slavery SM/H social society Somers Spencer Stanwix stone story symbols Tartarus Theodore Parker Thomas Melvill Thoreau Tocqueville Vere Vere’s Webster whale whip White-Jacket York Young America