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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... York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York. “The Somers Mutiny and Billy Budd: Melville in the Penal Colony” originally appeared in Criminal Justice History ...
... York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York. “The Somers Mutiny and Billy Budd: Melville in the Penal Colony” originally appeared in Criminal Justice History ...
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... York Herald . " Cooper's ' Red Rover ' and ' Water Witch ' have done an incalculable amount of mischief . " Spencer swore , when he was expelled from college , that he would make a life of piracy . He was said to have planned to murder ...
... York Herald . " Cooper's ' Red Rover ' and ' Water Witch ' have done an incalculable amount of mischief . " Spencer swore , when he was expelled from college , that he would make a life of piracy . He was said to have planned to murder ...
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... Laceys resemble the real New York De Lanceys , Cooper's wife's family ( with whom he had quarreled ) , and a leading loyalist clan . Cooper mentions two De Lancey British officers in his revolutionary tale of disguise , rebellion ,
... Laceys resemble the real New York De Lanceys , Cooper's wife's family ( with whom he had quarreled ) , and a leading loyalist clan . Cooper mentions two De Lancey British officers in his revolutionary tale of disguise , rebellion ,
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... York . That city , he wrote his father , was " destined to become the commercial emporium of our Country , it is daily rising in wealth and splendour . " There “ my children I trust will inherit an honest name , and keep pace with ...
... York . That city , he wrote his father , was " destined to become the commercial emporium of our Country , it is daily rising in wealth and splendour . " There “ my children I trust will inherit an honest name , and keep pace with ...
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... York meant to shatter traditional ties and place oneself on the wheel of fortune . New York provided opportunity , nonetheless , and other younger sons of Boston merchants also sought their fortunes there . By the end of 1818 , Allan ...
... York meant to shatter traditional ties and place oneself on the wheel of fortune . New York provided opportunity , nonetheless , and other younger sons of Boston merchants also sought their fortunes there . By the end of 1818 , Allan ...
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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