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Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville

Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville

Michael Paul Rogin

See Melville, Herman Moredock, Colonel, 245-7 Morewood, Sarah, 111, 183-4, 186 Morgan, Edmund, 127 Murray, Henry, 168 Nationalism, 20, 22, 39-40, 71, 73 -4, 102-3, 106, ... See Melville, Herman Pierce, Franklin, 148, 219-20, 255 Pierre.
White Lies: Melville's Narratives of Facts

White Lies: Melville's Narratives of Facts

John Samson

John Seelye, Melville, and Axel Carl Bredahl, Melville's Angles of Vision ( Gainesville, Fla., 1972), see Redburn learning relativism. Edgar Dryden, Melville's Thema- tics, says that Redburn gains a new level of awareness by accepting guilt.
Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine

Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine

Robert Milder

31. Quoted in Jay Leyda, The Melville Log, 2 vols. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951), 2:605. 32. Miller 321. Laurie Robertson-Lorant, Melville: A Biography ( New York: Clarkson Potter, 1996), 509; Garner, Civil War World of Herman Melville ...
A Century of National Life. a Thanksgiving Sermon by Henry ...

A Century of National Life. a Thanksgiving Sermon by Henry ...

Henry Melville King

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: A Routledge Study Guide and ...

Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: A Routledge Study Guide and ...

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1 Every scholar of Melville is greatly indebted to his principal modern biographers, Hershel Parker and Laurie Robertson—Lorant, and to the editors of the Northwestern—Newberry editions of Melville's collected works, which provide standard ...
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Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint

Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint

Douglas Robillard

Melville's allusions to works of art embellish his poems and novels.
Mistress to the Marquis

Mistress to the Marquis

Margaret McPhee

She may grace his bed, but she will never wear his ring They whisper her name in the ballroom's shadows—the marquis's mistress!
The Poems of Herman Melville

The Poems of Herman Melville

Herman Melville

In this revised edition Douglas Robillard updates the scholarship on his poetry through the introduction and notes.
Melville's White Whale: Pragmatism's Role in Moby Dick

Melville's White Whale: Pragmatism's Role in Moby Dick

Lauren Becker

Many scholars have broached the subject of Melville's relation to pragmatism, but in most cases, they have merely grazed it.
LOUISIANA PURCHASE & ITS SIGNI

LOUISIANA PURCHASE & ITS SIGNI

Henry Melville King

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
SUMMER VISIT OF 3 RHODE ISLAND

SUMMER VISIT OF 3 RHODE ISLAND

Henry Melville King

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Melville: A Biography

Melville: A Biography

Laurie Robertson-Lorant

Drawing on more than five hundred newly discovered letters, this book immerses the reader in the often turbulent world of Herman Melville, from his childhood to his seafaring days, to his often frustrating career as a writer.
A Companion to Melville studies

A Companion to Melville studies

John Bryant

"An encyclopedic attempt to consolidate what is presently known about Melville's life, works, and culture. . . . consistently informative and frequently provocative." Choice
The Cambridge History of the American Novel

The Cambridge History of the American Novel

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Hester Blum's emphasis in this volume on the fluid nature of Melville's use of the sea narrative, allowing for metaphysical and cultural as well as geographical explorations, identifies an important aspect of Melville's struggles with “issues such ...
Marrying the Marquis

Marrying the Marquis

Patricia Grasso

Blaze cannot let the Scottish rogue have his way--or her innocence--but never in her life has she been so tempted. Perhaps the Marquis's scheme doesn't pose such a dilemma after all. . . Praise for Patricia Grasso and Tempting The Prince.
Déserts d'altitude

Déserts d'altitude

Sarah Marquis

Pour Sarah Marquis, la vie est faite de rires, de magie, de lumière indescriptible, mais aussi d'épreuves frontales face à la faim, au mal d'altitude.
Melville’s Anatomies

Melville’s Anatomies

Samuel Otter

See, for example, John Sullivan Dwight's review from the Brook Farm Harbinger and the anonymous review in Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, both reprinted in Milton Stern, Critical Essays on Herman Melville's “Typee,” 22–27 and 35–37 ...
Versions of Pygmalion

Versions of Pygmalion

Joseph Hillis Miller

Discusses the ethics of writing and reading fiction, the creation and action of characters, and works by Henry James, Melville, Heinrich von Kleist, and Maurice Blanchot

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