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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798157903321

Autore

Milder Robert

Titolo

Exiled royalties : Melville and the life we imagine / / Robert Milder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

0-19-971326-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Disciplina

813.3

Soggetti

Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century

Novelists, American - 19th century

Democracy in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Sources; 1. Anticipating Freedom: Melville and Polynesia; 2. The Broken Circle: Melville and (Post-)Romanticism; 3. The Theory and Practice of Democratic Tragedy (1): Melville's Metaphysics of Democracy: "Hawthorne and His Mosses""; 4. The Theory and Practice of Democratic Tragedy (2): Ishmael's Grand Erections; 5. Exiled Royalties; 6. "The Ugly Socrates": Melville, Hawthorne, and the Varieties of Homoerotic Experience; 7. An Arch between Two Lives: Melville and the Mediterranean, 1856-57; 8. Uncivil Wars

9. Unworldly Yearners: Agnostic Spirituality in Clarel10. Alms for Oblivion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z