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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Michael Paul Rogin. cousins Leonard and Peter Gansevoort, Pierre Thomas Melvill, and Melville himself). Finally, he pretends to be a captain sailing under legitimate state authority (the chosen path of cousin Stanwix Gansevoort, the ...
Michael Paul Rogin. cousins Leonard and Peter Gansevoort, Pierre Thomas Melvill, and Melville himself). Finally, he pretends to be a captain sailing under legitimate state authority (the chosen path of cousin Stanwix Gansevoort, the ...
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... Peter Gansevoort, was Maria's brother and the uncle of Guert Gansevoort and Gansevoort and Herman Melville. Cooper excepted Lieutenant Gansevoort from his strictures against Captain Mackenzie, “with sincere pleasure,” “for he bears an ...
... Peter Gansevoort, was Maria's brother and the uncle of Guert Gansevoort and Gansevoort and Herman Melville. Cooper excepted Lieutenant Gansevoort from his strictures against Captain Mackenzie, “with sincere pleasure,” “for he bears an ...
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... Peter Gansevoort, entered the marketplace. Gansevoort prospered, Melvill fell to his ruin. But neither entirely trusted economic life, and they hoped that pietistic loyalty to their revolutionary fathers would spread through society and ...
... Peter Gansevoort, entered the marketplace. Gansevoort prospered, Melvill fell to his ruin. But neither entirely trusted economic life, and they hoped that pietistic loyalty to their revolutionary fathers would spread through society and ...
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... Peter Gansevoort, “No American in France enjoys within the circle of my connexions, a higher reputation than myself, and this it will be the great object of my life to preserve unsullied, and leave it as an inheritance for my Children ...
... Peter Gansevoort, “No American in France enjoys within the circle of my connexions, a higher reputation than myself, and this it will be the great object of my life to preserve unsullied, and leave it as an inheritance for my Children ...
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... Peter Gansevoort wrote to Thomas Melvill, Jr. The brother who had been in debtor's prison assumed the family ... Gansevoort orbit, and not leave him alone in New York. But Melvill was as dependent on the Gansevoorts as was his wife. He ...
... Peter Gansevoort wrote to Thomas Melvill, Jr. The brother who had been in debtor's prison assumed the family ... Gansevoort orbit, and not leave him alone in New York. But Melvill was as dependent on the Gansevoorts as was his wife. He ...
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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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