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Up from the Depths : Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times /

Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history--the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895-1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the...

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Autor principal: Sachs, Aaron (Aaron Jacob) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 0 |t Preface. Melville, Mumford, Modernity --  |t Chapter 1. Loomings (1927-29) --  |t Chapter 2. The Whiteness of the Page (1856-65) --  |t Chapter 3. Bitter Morning (1918-19) --  |t Chapter 4. Fragments of War and Peace (1865-67) --  |t Chapter 5. Reconstruction (1930-31) --  |t Chapter 6. The Golden Day (1846-50) --  |t Chapter 7. Retrospective (1956-82) --  |t Chapter 8. A Bosom Friend (1850-51) --  |t Chapter 9. Amor Threatening (1930-35) --  |t Chapter 10. Cetology (1851-52) --  |t Chapter 11. Neotechnics (1932-34) --  |t Chapter 12. The Ambiguities (1852) --  |t Chapter 13. Spiritual Freedom (1935-38) --  |t Chapter 14. The Happy Failure (1853-55) --  |t Chapter 15. Reconnaissance (1899-1925) --  |t Chapter 16. Disenchantment (1853-55) --  |t Chapter 17. Counterpoint (1938) --  |t Chapter 18. Redburn (1839-55) --  |t Chapter 19. Radburn (1923-39) --  |t Chapter 20. Revolutions (1848-55) --  |t Chapter 21. Misgivings and Preparatives (1938-39) --  |t Chapter 22. The Piazza (1856-57) --  |t Chapter 23. Faith (1940-43) --  |t Chapter 24. The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating (1856-57) --  |t Chapter 25. The Darkness of the Present Day (1944) --  |t Chapter 26. More Gloom, and the Light of That Gloom (1856-76) --  |t Chapter 27. Survival (1944-47) --  |t Chapter 28. The Warmth and Chill of Wedded Life and Death (1876-91) --  |t Chapter 29. Chronometricals and Horologicals (1944-51) --  |t Chapter 30. The Life-Buoy (1891; 1924-29) --  |t Chapter 31. Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth (1951-62) --  |t Chapter 32. Revival (1919-62) --  |t Chapter 33. Call Me Jonah (1962-82) --  |t Chapter 34. Lizzie (1891-1906) --  |t Chapter 35. Sophia (1982-97) --  |t Chapter 36. Rediscovery (2019) 
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