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's father was also a merchant. His grandfathers, on both sides of the family, were heroes of the Revolution ... Herman Melville, his brothers, and the male Gansevoort cousins of their generation. The Rover first masquerades as a ...
... Melville's father was also a merchant. His grandfathers, on both sides of the family, were heroes of the Revolution ... Herman Melville, his brothers, and the male Gansevoort cousins of their generation. The Rover first masquerades as a ...
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... Herman Melville, “A Thought on Book-Binding”3 Melville read The Red Rover at the age of twenty-one. He had left home to visit his uncle, Thomas Melvill, on the frontier. The romance may have influenced his decision to abandon his family ...
... Herman Melville, “A Thought on Book-Binding”3 Melville read The Red Rover at the age of twenty-one. He had left home to visit his uncle, Thomas Melvill, on the frontier. The romance may have influenced his decision to abandon his family ...
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... Herman Melville, like Philip Spencer, was charged with mutiny in 1842. He named the book describing that mutiny Omoo; the title, he tells us, is the Marquesan word for “rover.” White-Jacket, published the same year as “A Thought on Book ...
... Herman Melville, like Philip Spencer, was charged with mutiny in 1842. He named the book describing that mutiny Omoo; the title, he tells us, is the Marquesan word for “rover.” White-Jacket, published the same year as “A Thought on Book ...
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... Herman Melville, “A Thought on B00k-Binding”13 Like Melville's mother, Maria Gansevoort, Cooper came from a patrician New York family. His school friend, Peter Gansevoort, was Maria's brother and the uncle of Guert Gansevoort and ...
... Herman Melville, “A Thought on B00k-Binding”13 Like Melville's mother, Maria Gansevoort, Cooper came from a patrician New York family. His school friend, Peter Gansevoort, was Maria's brother and the uncle of Guert Gansevoort and ...
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... Melville's fiction. After Allan Melvill died, in 1832, Shaw acted the part of father to young Gansevoort and Herman. Soon after Gansevoort died, Herman married Shaw's daughter. The marriage reunited this South Seas rover with his almost ...
... Melville's fiction. After Allan Melvill died, in 1832, Shaw acted the part of father to young Gansevoort and Herman. Soon after Gansevoort died, Herman married Shaw's daughter. The marriage reunited this South Seas rover with his almost ...
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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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