Exiled royalties : Melville and the life we imagine /

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"Exiled Royalties" is a literary/biographical study of the course of Melville's career from his experience in Polynesia through his retirement from the New York Custom House and his composition of three late volumes of poetry and "Billy Budd, Sailor". Conceived separately bu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Milder, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Political and social views.
1800-1899
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Novelists, American > 19th century > Biography.
Democracy in literature.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Romanciers américains > 19e siècle > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Literature and society.
Novelists, American.
Political and social views.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Melville and Polynesia
  • The broken circle: Melville and (post- )romanticism
  • The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (1): Melville's metaphysics of democracy: "Hawthorne and his mosses"
  • The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (2): Ishmael's grand erections
  • Exiled royalties
  • "The ugly Socrates": Melville, Hawthorne, and the varieties of Homoerotic experience
  • An arch between two lives: Melville and the Mediterranean, 1856-1857
  • Uncivil wars
  • Unworldly yearners: agnostic spirituality in Clarel
  • Alms for oblivion.

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