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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... hero did not? In the guise of reviewing the cover of Red Rover, Melville was secretly introducing its first major theme, and a major theme of his own, masquerade. We first meet the Red Rover outside Newport harbor, disguised as a slaver ...
... hero did not? In the guise of reviewing the cover of Red Rover, Melville was secretly introducing its first major theme, and a major theme of his own, masquerade. We first meet the Red Rover outside Newport harbor, disguised as a slaver ...
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... 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, but they have not earned their inheritance. They clothe ...
... 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, but they have not earned their inheritance. They clothe ...
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... hero, uncle, and rival also calls Mrs. Wyllys mother. Authority had been split, in this romance, between outlaw passion and the law. Wilder's initiation by his uncle, and his triumph over him, reintegrate instinct, political authority ...
... hero, uncle, and rival also calls Mrs. Wyllys mother. Authority had been split, in this romance, between outlaw passion and the law. Wilder's initiation by his uncle, and his triumph over him, reintegrate instinct, political authority ...
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... heroes found their identities by stripping away their costumes. But neither subversion nor the family allowed Melville to free himself from disguise. Pierre's “pious imposture” of marriage to Isabel, allegedly designed to save his ...
... heroes found their identities by stripping away their costumes. But neither subversion nor the family allowed Melville to free himself from disguise. Pierre's “pious imposture” of marriage to Isabel, allegedly designed to save his ...
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... heroes of the Revolution. His paternal antecedent participated in the Boston Tea Party and fought at Bunker Hill. His maternal ancestor defended Fort Stanwix against British and Indian attack. Melville's grandfathers were rebaptized to ...
... heroes of the Revolution. His paternal antecedent participated in the Boston Tea Party and fought at Bunker Hill. His maternal ancestor defended Fort Stanwix against British and Indian attack. Melville's grandfathers were rebaptized to ...
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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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