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, from whose life and death Herman first sought a personal and political alternative. To interpret Melville's ... Thomas Melvill, sailed for Liverpool early in 1818. His trip had two purposes. He traveled first to Scotland, to ...
... Melvill, from whose life and death Herman first sought a personal and political alternative. To interpret Melville's ... Thomas Melvill, sailed for Liverpool early in 1818. His trip had two purposes. He traveled first to Scotland, to ...
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... Melvill imported cloth like white tapaze from which the costumes he deplored ... Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus made that disjunction the emblem for the ... Melville, perhaps because it joined transcendental philosophy to his father's ...
... Melvill imported cloth like white tapaze from which the costumes he deplored ... Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus made that disjunction the emblem for the ... Melville, perhaps because it joined transcendental philosophy to his father's ...
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... Melvill turned for help to his clan ties. His entreaties reconnected family to work in ways that recalled—and in ... Thomas. Thomas Melvill borrowed heavily from his father, from Lemuel Shaw, and from other creditors. He was confined to ...
... Melvill turned for help to his clan ties. His entreaties reconnected family to work in ways that recalled—and in ... Thomas. Thomas Melvill borrowed heavily from his father, from Lemuel Shaw, and from other creditors. He was confined to ...
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... Thomas's debts to his father were not “bona fide,” but part of a conspiracy to defraud them of their money. They ... Melvill reappointment as the inspector of the Boston Custom House.41 But Allan damaged the family name and fortune as ...
... Thomas's debts to his father were not “bona fide,” but part of a conspiracy to defraud them of their money. They ... Melvill reappointment as the inspector of the Boston Custom House.41 But Allan damaged the family name and fortune as ...
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... 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 live, a Maniac.”44 ...
... 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 live, a Maniac.”44 ...
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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