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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... Melville was less politically programmatic than various partisans would have it, and more immersed in political ... Gansevoort Melville chose democratic authority ashore. He freed himself from the declining, old families and embraced ...
... Melville was less politically programmatic than various partisans would have it, and more immersed in political ... Gansevoort Melville chose democratic authority ashore. He freed himself from the declining, old families and embraced ...
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... Gansevoort kin at home to the feudally, familially sanctified authority of state naval rank. Kin relations no longer ... Melville, like his cousin, Guert, felt that claim on board ship, but he felt it as oppression, not as authority. The “ ...
... Gansevoort kin at home to the feudally, familially sanctified authority of state naval rank. Kin relations no longer ... Melville, like his cousin, Guert, felt that claim on board ship, but he felt it as oppression, not as authority. The “ ...
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... descendants. Gansevoort Melville would seek to acquire that authority for himself. His form of emulation was parricidal, for he invoked the “bloody heart” of the Scots martyr, Robert Bruce, in a campaign to defeat and surpass.
... descendants. Gansevoort Melville would seek to acquire that authority for himself. His form of emulation was parricidal, for he invoked the “bloody heart” of the Scots martyr, Robert Bruce, in a campaign to defeat and surpass.
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... Gansevoort Melville confronted the problems posed for aspiring heroes who lived among their ancestors' tombs.63 ... Gansevoort Melville's inflammatory way. Just as important, and here lay the second significance of his speech, Webster ...
... Gansevoort Melville confronted the problems posed for aspiring heroes who lived among their ancestors' tombs.63 ... Gansevoort Melville's inflammatory way. Just as important, and here lay the second significance of his speech, Webster ...
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... Gansevoort Melville was one of its spokesmen; Lewis Cass was another. “It is better to look around on prosperity than back on glory,” warned Cass in his 1848 address. While Americans transformed “the fiction of eastern imagination” into ...
... Gansevoort Melville was one of its spokesmen; Lewis Cass was another. “It is better to look around on prosperity than back on glory,” warned Cass in his 1848 address. While Americans transformed “the fiction of eastern imagination” into ...
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SOCIETY | |
Herman Melvilles Eighteenth Brumaire | |
THE STATE | |
The Somers Mutiny and Billy Budd Melville in | |
Notes | |
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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