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 turned for help to his clan ties. His entreaties reconnected family ... Peter Gansevoort, “No American in France enjoys within the circle of my ... Melvill borrowed heavily from his father, from Lemuel Shaw, and from other ...
... Melvill turned for help to his clan ties. His entreaties reconnected family ... Peter Gansevoort, “No American in France enjoys within the circle of my ... Melvill borrowed heavily from his father, from Lemuel Shaw, and from other ...
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... Peter Gansevoort wrote to Thomas Melvill, Jr. The brother who had been in debtor's prison assumed the family responsibility. He rushed to Albany, and from there wrote Shaw that even should Allan recover his physical health, “he would ...
... Peter Gansevoort wrote to Thomas Melvill, Jr. The brother who had been in debtor's prison assumed the family responsibility. He rushed to Albany, and from there wrote Shaw that even should Allan recover his physical health, “he would ...
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... Melvill, placed financial pressure on the family in the 1830s and 1840s. Speculations failed to replace income that had accumulated slowly over time. Although he eventually rebuilt his personal fortune, Peter Gansevoort provided little ...
... Melvill, placed financial pressure on the family in the 1830s and 1840s. Speculations failed to replace income that had accumulated slowly over time. Although he eventually rebuilt his personal fortune, Peter Gansevoort provided little ...
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... Melvill, the son of one “old revolutionary Worth[y],” wrote to Peter Gansevoort, the son of another, “The time must come Gansevoort when our Posterity will associate the American Revolution with the proudest epochs of Greece and Rome ...
... Melvill, the son of one “old revolutionary Worth[y],” wrote to Peter Gansevoort, the son of another, “The time must come Gansevoort when our Posterity will associate the American Revolution with the proudest epochs of Greece and Rome ...
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... Peter Gansevoort's “benevolent wizard,” Lafayette, did not abandon America to “sad reality” after all. What seemed ... Melvill's words, “form a triple league more formidable than the 'Holy Alliance.' ” Melvill and Everett might wish for ...
... Peter Gansevoort's “benevolent wizard,” Lafayette, did not abandon America to “sad reality” after all. What seemed ... Melvill's words, “form a triple league more formidable than the 'Holy Alliance.' ” Melvill and Everett might wish for ...
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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