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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Michael Paul Rogin. CHAPTER 1 ALLAN MELVILL AND SOME VERSIONS OF ROMANCE I To students of American literature, the distinction between the European novel and the American romance is familiar. The ... Allan Melvill and Some Versions of ...
Michael Paul Rogin. CHAPTER 1 ALLAN MELVILL AND SOME VERSIONS OF ROMANCE I To students of American literature, the distinction between the European novel and the American romance is familiar. The ... Allan Melvill and Some Versions of ...
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... Melville experienced the contraction of family in his own family history. His father, Allan Melvill, and his uncle, Peter Gansevoort, entered the marketplace. Gansevoort prospered, Melvill fell to his ruin. But neither entirely trusted ...
... Melville experienced the contraction of family in his own family history. His father, Allan Melvill, and his uncle, Peter Gansevoort, entered the marketplace. Gansevoort prospered, Melvill fell to his ruin. But neither entirely trusted ...
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... Allan Melvill, from whose life and death Herman first sought a personal and political alternative. To interpret ... Allan Melvill, son of the Revolutionary War hero, Major Thomas Melvill, sailed for Liverpool early in 1818. His trip had ...
... Allan Melvill, from whose life and death Herman first sought a personal and political alternative. To interpret ... Allan Melvill, son of the Revolutionary War hero, Major Thomas Melvill, sailed for Liverpool early in 1818. His trip had ...
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... Melvill decided to set up his business in New York. That city, he wrote his father, was “destined to become the ... Allan Melvill settled there. It was expanding, while Boston was in relative decline. Nevertheless, had Melvill remained ...
... Melvill decided to set up his business in New York. That city, he wrote his father, was “destined to become the ... Allan Melvill settled there. It was expanding, while Boston was in relative decline. Nevertheless, had Melvill remained ...
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... Allan Melvill was an “importer of French goods and commission merchant” on Pearl Street. Nine months later his first New York child, Herman, was born.25 The replacement of Major Melvill by the marketplace made Allan insecure. He ...
... Allan Melvill was an “importer of French goods and commission merchant” on Pearl Street. Nine months later his first New York child, Herman, was born.25 The replacement of Major Melvill by the marketplace made Allan insecure. He ...
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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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