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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... Melvill's sons and nephews. The changing economics of the middle-class family sealed his fate. As the home lost its ... Maria Melvill was at once the alternative to the “Temple of Fashion” and the avenue by which it entered the home. She ...
... Melvill's sons and nephews. The changing economics of the middle-class family sealed his fate. As the home lost its ... Maria Melvill was at once the alternative to the “Temple of Fashion” and the avenue by which it entered the home. She ...
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... Melvill, Jr. The brother who had been in debtor's prison assumed the family responsibility. He rushed to Albany, and ... Maria Melvill to recover their share of the Melvill estate, for Allan's debts to it were larger than his inheritance ...
... Melvill, Jr. The brother who had been in debtor's prison assumed the family responsibility. He rushed to Albany, and ... Maria Melvill to recover their share of the Melvill estate, for Allan's debts to it were larger than his inheritance ...
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... Maria in genteel poverty for most of the decade and a half following Allan's death. Herman Melville, after desultory, unsuccessful efforts financially to assist his family, shipped out on a whaler in 1841. He was gone almost four years ...
... Maria in genteel poverty for most of the decade and a half following Allan's death. Herman Melville, after desultory, unsuccessful efforts financially to assist his family, shipped out on a whaler in 1841. He was gone almost four years ...
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... Maria and Gansevoort Melvill added the final “e” to the family name after Allan's death, to replace the name of a bankrupt with that of an aristocrat. Spelling the name “Melville” posthumously, however, underscored the futility of ...
... Maria and Gansevoort Melvill added the final “e” to the family name after Allan's death, to replace the name of a bankrupt with that of an aristocrat. Spelling the name “Melville” posthumously, however, underscored the futility of ...
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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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Ahab Ahab’s Albany Allan Melvill American antebellum authority Bartleby Bartleby’s Battle-Pieces Benito Cereno Billy Budd Billy’s Boston brother buttons captain Civil confidence Confidence-Man conflict Cooper’s costume crew custom house death democratic dome Duyckinck escape father flogging freedom Gansevoort Melville Glendinning Guert Gansevoort Hawthorne heart Henry Herman Melville hero human Ibid imagined Indian Isabel Ishmael Israel Potter Jackson lawyer Lemuel Shaw Lincoln Mackenzie Mackenzie’s man’s Manifest Destiny Maria Melvill Marx masquerade Melvill to Peter Melville wrote Melville’s Melville’s fiction Moby Moby-Dick mother Mount Greylock mutiny narrator nature Neversink novel O’Sullivan Omoo Parker paternal Pequod Peter Gansevoort Philip Spencer Pierre Pierre’s poem Red Rover Redburn replaced Revolution revolutionary romance sailors San Dominick savage Shaw’s ship slave slavery SM/H social society Somers Spencer Stanwix stone story symbols Tartarus Theodore Parker Thomas Melvill Thoreau Tocqueville Vere Vere’s Webster whale whip White-Jacket York Young America