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Exiled royalties : Melville and the life we imagine

Title
Exiled royalties : Melville and the life we imagine / Robert Milder.
Author
Milder, Robert.
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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xx, 290 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
  • Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 > Political and social views
  • Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century
  • Novelists, American > 19th century > Biography
  • Democracy in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-284) and index.
Contents
Anticipating freedom: 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, 1856-57 -- Uncivil wars -- Unworldly yearners: agnostic spirituality in Clarel -- Alms for oblivion.
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JFE 06-7048
ISBN
0195142322 (hbbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
  • 2005006680
  • 9780195142327
OCLC
62474752
Author
Milder, Robert.
Title
Exiled royalties : Melville and the life we imagine / Robert Milder.
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-284) and index.
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JFE 06-7048
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