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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... Americans also used an interior, religious and familial vocabulary of political piety and personal regeneration. This language, which I shall call the language of political romance, had specifically American components—Puritan ...
... Americans also used an interior, religious and familial vocabulary of political piety and personal regeneration. This language, which I shall call the language of political romance, had specifically American components—Puritan ...
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... America. The American family order was not feudal, however. It was rooted in private property, and developed a language of individual, natural rights. Leading American families donned their citizen robes in 1776 to protect republican ...
... America. The American family order was not feudal, however. It was rooted in private property, and developed a language of individual, natural rights. Leading American families donned their citizen robes in 1776 to protect republican ...
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... American... It is a miserable imitation. Love of freedom is not there. The real national literature is to be found almost wholly in speeches, pamphlets, and newspapers.” Parker wrote on the eve of the American Renaissance, which ...
... American... It is a miserable imitation. Love of freedom is not there. The real national literature is to be found almost wholly in speeches, pamphlets, and newspapers.” Parker wrote on the eve of the American Renaissance, which ...
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... American politics and American art is very nearly the reverse of that normally proposed. Politics did not root itself in concrete social interests, driving literature to fairyland. Rather, American political conflict was both more ...
... American politics and American art is very nearly the reverse of that normally proposed. Politics did not root itself in concrete social interests, driving literature to fairyland. Rather, American political conflict was both more ...
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... American Paris or Rome but on the frontier.15 “If ever America undergoes great revolutions,” wrote Tocqueville, “they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States; that is to say, they will ...
... American Paris or Rome but on the frontier.15 “If ever America undergoes great revolutions,” wrote Tocqueville, “they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States; that is to say, they will ...
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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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