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's fiction, and of the society refracted through it, must also be a history of Melville's family, and of the writer's relation to his kin; and finally, that Melville rendered American history symbolically, so that a history of ...
... Melville's fiction, and of the society refracted through it, must also be a history of Melville's family, and of the writer's relation to his kin; and finally, that Melville rendered American history symbolically, so that a history of ...
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... Melville in the end. Melville's clan was prominent in American politics for three generations from the Revolution to the Civil War. Family connections located the writer at the center of the dominant public issues of his time: Manifest ...
... Melville in the end. Melville's clan was prominent in American politics for three generations from the Revolution to the Civil War. Family connections located the writer at the center of the dominant public issues of his time: Manifest ...
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... Melville's brother, Tom). Two of these careers, those of Guert Gansevoort and Gansevoort Melville, were decisive for the novelist's development. Guert Gansevoort and Gansevoort Melville received split patrimonies from their grandfathers ...
... Melville's brother, Tom). Two of these careers, those of Guert Gansevoort and Gansevoort Melville, were decisive for the novelist's development. Guert Gansevoort and Gansevoort Melville received split patrimonies from their grandfathers ...
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... Melville's hands, the happy family. Melville's fiction from T ypee to Pierre followed the trajectory of The Red Rover, from shedding false identities, to subversion, back to family. Melville's early heroes found their identities by ...
... Melville's hands, the happy family. Melville's fiction from T ypee to Pierre followed the trajectory of The Red Rover, from shedding false identities, to subversion, back to family. Melville's early heroes found their identities by ...
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Michael Paul Rogin. attack. Melville's grandfathers were rebaptized to honor their revolutionary achievements. “The Hero of Fort Stanwix on the banks of the Mohawk” and the “last Mohawk” from the Boston Tea Party were, in Melville's ...
Michael Paul Rogin. attack. Melville's grandfathers were rebaptized to honor their revolutionary achievements. “The Hero of Fort Stanwix on the banks of the Mohawk” and the “last Mohawk” from the Boston Tea Party were, in Melville's ...
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SOCIETY | |
Herman Melvilles Eighteenth Brumaire | |
THE STATE | |
The Somers Mutiny and Billy Budd Melville in | |
Notes | |
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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