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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... replaced the " puerile superstitions and exploded manners , Gothic castles and chimeras " of the European romance with " the incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the Western wilderness . " Cooper became " our national ...
... replaced the " puerile superstitions and exploded manners , Gothic castles and chimeras " of the European romance with " the incidents of Indian hostility and the perils of the Western wilderness . " Cooper became " our national ...
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... contractual relations replaced the claims of the heart . Moral sensibility and authentic fellow - feeling , driven from the marketplace , made their home in the family . Allan Melvill chose not only his fortune over his father when he.
... contractual relations replaced the claims of the heart . Moral sensibility and authentic fellow - feeling , driven from the marketplace , made their home in the family . Allan Melvill chose not only his fortune over his father when he.
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... replaced civic meaning with family solace accentuated the split between public and private . In the eighteenth century , family provided a bridge to the world of work ; in the nineteenth century it promised a refuge from it . Eric ...
... replaced civic meaning with family solace accentuated the split between public and private . In the eighteenth century , family provided a bridge to the world of work ; in the nineteenth century it promised a refuge from it . Eric ...
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... replaced the Melvill parent in Boston , and it was fruitful of insanity for his son . Allan traveled frantically up and down the Hudson , trying to save his business . Sick and exhausted from these winter trips , he took to bed , and ...
... replaced the Melvill parent in Boston , and it was fruitful of insanity for his son . Allan traveled frantically up and down the Hudson , trying to save his business . Sick and exhausted from these winter trips , he took to bed , and ...
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... replaced it with a large , ostentatious commercial structure . Offices , restaurant , ballroom , meeting room , and hotel parceled out to strangers the functions once gathered together in the family home . But the Gansevoorts ...
... replaced it with a large , ostentatious commercial structure . Offices , restaurant , ballroom , meeting room , and hotel parceled out to strangers the functions once gathered together in the family home . But the Gansevoorts ...
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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