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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... Slave-trading introduces the disjunction in this story between legality and exterior elegance on the one hand, internal corruption or romantic rebellion on the other. The “garden of America,” explains Cooper, was sustained by the slave ...
... Slave-trading introduces the disjunction in this story between legality and exterior elegance on the one hand, internal corruption or romantic rebellion on the other. The “garden of America,” explains Cooper, was sustained by the slave ...
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... slave trade had legal protection in the colonies, and Red Rover was an outlaw. Cooper invokes the Puritans to show his support for legitimate authority. He appeals over the heads of the merchant fathers of the mid-eighteenth century to ...
... slave trade had legal protection in the colonies, and Red Rover was an outlaw. Cooper invokes the Puritans to show his support for legitimate authority. He appeals over the heads of the merchant fathers of the mid-eighteenth century to ...
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... slave,” Cooper had chosen “to struggle for my liberty” against the editors. The libel suits ended in 1843. The next year the novelist published a transcript of Captain Alexander Mackenzie's naval court-martial, and his long commentary ...
... slave,” Cooper had chosen “to struggle for my liberty” against the editors. The libel suits ended in 1843. The next year the novelist published a transcript of Captain Alexander Mackenzie's naval court-martial, and his long commentary ...
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... slave-trading under piracy had failed. To speak of joining a slaver, Cooper insisted, was not to commit mutiny. Nevertheless, the legal distinction made by Cooper and the Somers's mutineers cut against the moral distinction made in The ...
... slave-trading under piracy had failed. To speak of joining a slaver, Cooper insisted, was not to commit mutiny. Nevertheless, the legal distinction made by Cooper and the Somers's mutineers cut against the moral distinction made in The ...
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... slave masquerade, and the restoration of slavery, hardly reassure the reader. Cooper's retreat from piracy back to slavery, in his apology for the Somers mutiny, does not carry conviction either. Slavery as the model for authority ...
... slave masquerade, and the restoration of slavery, hardly reassure the reader. Cooper's retreat from piracy back to slavery, in his apology for the Somers mutiny, does not carry conviction either. Slavery as the model for authority ...
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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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