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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... American society whose work is comparable to that of the great nineteenth - century European realists ; that there was a crisis of bourgeois society at midcentury on both continents , but that in America it entered politics by way of ...
... American society whose work is comparable to that of the great nineteenth - century European realists ; that there was a crisis of bourgeois society at midcentury on both continents , but that in America it entered politics by way of ...
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Michael Paul Rogin. American political orthodoxies but against his family as well . And it points , finally , to the genealogy which itself subverted Melville in the end . Melville's clan was prominent in American politics for three ...
Michael Paul Rogin. American political orthodoxies but against his family as well . And it points , finally , to the genealogy which itself subverted Melville in the end . Melville's clan was prominent in American politics for three ...
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... American romance is familiar . The protagonist of the European novel moves within powerful institutions and conflicting social classes ; the asocial American innocent encounters racial doubles in nature . The novel presents a society's ...
... American romance is familiar . The protagonist of the European novel moves within powerful institutions and conflicting social classes ; the asocial American innocent encounters racial doubles in nature . The novel presents a society's ...
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... American romanticism a decade later , and by a justification , like Hawthorne's , that echoes his own . There is something disingenuous , however , about Hawthorne's plea for romance . It prefaced The Blithedale Romance , and that ...
... American romanticism a decade later , and by a justification , like Hawthorne's , that echoes his own . There is something disingenuous , however , about Hawthorne's plea for romance . It prefaced The Blithedale Romance , and that ...
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... American fiction still separate it too far from American historical experience . They still protect American literature from contamination by the " paltry interests " of American society . This method of rescuing the imagination ...
... American fiction still separate it too far from American historical experience . They still protect American literature from contamination by the " paltry interests " of American society . This method of rescuing the imagination ...
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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 |
Términos y frases comunes
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