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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... MELVILLE PRISCILLA SCOLLAY 1751-1832 Thomas Jr. . Francoise Mary 1776- Fleury 1778- Nancy 1783- 1845 1781- 1857 1813 Allan m . Maria Gansevoort 1782- 1832 * 1791- 1872 1814 Francoise Pierre Napoleon Priscilla Henry Peter 1804- 1821 ...
... MELVILLE PRISCILLA SCOLLAY 1751-1832 Thomas Jr. . Francoise Mary 1776- Fleury 1778- Nancy 1783- 1845 1781- 1857 1813 Allan m . Maria Gansevoort 1782- 1832 * 1791- 1872 1814 Francoise Pierre Napoleon Priscilla Henry Peter 1804- 1821 ...
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... Maria Gansevoort 1855- 1904 Charlotte Francis Elizabeth Washburne 1859- 1946 1865- 1930 Katherine Julia Lucy Gansevoort 1854- 1856- 1852- 1935 1854 1885. Mariam . Allan Melvill Peter 1789- Mary Sanford 1876 1814- 1841 1791- 1872 Henry Mary ...
... Maria Gansevoort 1855- 1904 Charlotte Francis Elizabeth Washburne 1859- 1946 1865- 1930 Katherine Julia Lucy Gansevoort 1854- 1856- 1852- 1935 1854 1885. Mariam . Allan Melvill Peter 1789- Mary Sanford 1876 1814- 1841 1791- 1872 Henry Mary ...
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... Maria Melvill , also the child of a revolutionary hero , had social prominence in her paternal city , Albany . There she received invitations to balls , like the one honoring Admiral Perry , the hero of Lake Erie in the 1812 War . She ...
... Maria Melvill , also the child of a revolutionary hero , had social prominence in her paternal city , Albany . There she received invitations to balls , like the one honoring Admiral Perry , the hero of Lake Erie in the 1812 War . She ...
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... Melvill. They used fancy dress to advance themselves and to adorn their children for society. “I witnessed a doting father purchasing for his Daughters two expensive Dresses, head ornaments, etc. etc.,” Maria Melvill complained, “and ...
... Melvill. They used fancy dress to advance themselves and to adorn their children for society. “I witnessed a doting father purchasing for his Daughters two expensive Dresses, head ornaments, etc. etc.,” Maria Melvill complained, “and ...
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... Maria and our sweet Infants , " Allan Melvill sought solace from the market in conjugal bliss.35 The cultivation of ... Melvill's , they might drive the father to bankruptcy , madness , and death . The self - made ideal , insisting ...
... Maria and our sweet Infants , " Allan Melvill sought solace from the market in conjugal bliss.35 The cultivation of ... Melvill's , they might drive the father to bankruptcy , madness , and death . The self - made ideal , insisting ...
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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