Subversive Genealogy
Subtitle: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: April 18, 1985
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780520051782
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Biography & Autobiography; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; Biography/Autobiography; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General
Table of contents: title: The Gansevoort-Melvill(e) family trees; title: Prologue : The red rover; title: Part 1 : Politics.; title: Allan Melvill and some versions of romance; title: Gansevoort Melville : cannibals and Christians; title: Guert Gansevoort : masters and slaves; title: Moby-Dick and the American 1848; title: Part 2 : Society.; title: Herman Melville's eighteenth Brumaire; title: Class struggles in America; title: Revolutionary fathers and confidence men; title: Part 3 : The state.; title: The iron dome; title: The Somers Mutiny and Billy Budd : Melville in the penal colony