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Exiled Royalties : Melville and the Life We Imagine.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (311 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199713264
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Exiled RoyaltiesDDC classification:
  • 813/.3 B
LOC classification:
  • PS2386.M553 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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 Clarel -- 10. 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.
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Intro -- 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 Clarel -- 10. 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.

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