SUBVERSIVE GENEALOGYIn 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 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 Destiny, slavery, ...
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 Destiny, slavery, ...
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His grandfathers, on both sides of the family, were heroes of the Revolution. In Cooper's discussion, however, noble ancestors do not sustain their businessmen descendants. Traders claim respect, in imitation of their progenitors, ...
His grandfathers, on both sides of the family, were heroes of the Revolution. In Cooper's discussion, however, noble ancestors do not sustain their businessmen descendants. Traders claim respect, in imitation of their progenitors, ...
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Cooper's distinction between good heart and mistaken head pointed to the distance between confident authority in revolutionary days and contemporary anxiety.14 The masquerade in The Red Rover ends with the revelation and ...
Cooper's distinction between good heart and mistaken head pointed to the distance between confident authority in revolutionary days and contemporary anxiety.14 The masquerade in The Red Rover ends with the revelation and ...
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Cooper mentions two De Lancey British officers in his revolutionary tale of disguise, rebellion, and family reunion, The Spy. The Red Rover, written soon after The Spy and carrying forward its themes, also concludes in the Revolution.
Cooper mentions two De Lancey British officers in his revolutionary tale of disguise, rebellion, and family reunion, The Spy. The Red Rover, written soon after The Spy and carrying forward its themes, also concludes in the Revolution.
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Hawthorne, that teller of Puritan, revolutionary, and wilderness stories, knew better. The frontier provided America not only with its national literature but with its distinctive history as well. Charles Brockden Brown, in the preface ...
Hawthorne, that teller of Puritan, revolutionary, and wilderness stories, knew better. The frontier provided America not only with its national literature but with its distinctive history as well. Charles Brockden Brown, in the preface ...
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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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