Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We ImagineOxford University Press, 2006/01/05 - 310 ページ 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 but narratively and thematically intertwined, the ten essays in the book are rooted in a belief that "Melville's work," as Charles Olson said, "must be left in his own 'life,'" which for Milder means primarily his spiritual, psychological, and vocational life. Four of the ten essays deal with Melville's life and work after his novelistic career ended with the The Confidence-Man in 1857. The range of issues addressed in the essays includes Melville's attitudes toward society, history, and politics, from broad ideas about democracy and the course of Western civilization to responses to particular events like the Astor Place Riots and the Civil War; his feeling about sexuality and, throughout the book, about religion; his relationship to past and present writers, especially to the phases of Euro-American Romanticism, post-Romanticism, and nascent Modernism; his relationship to his wife, Lizzie, to Hawthorne, and to his father, all of whom figured in the crisis that made for Pierre. The title essay, "Exiled Royalties," takes its origin from Ishmael's account of "the larger, darker, deeper part of Ahab"--Melville's mythic projection of a "larger, darker, deeper part" of himself. How to live nobly in spiritual exile--to be godlike in the perceptible absence of God--was a lifelong preoccupation for Melville, who, in lieu of positive belief, transposed the drama of his spiritual life to literature. The ways in which this impulse expressed itself through Melville's forty-five year career, interweaving itself with his personal life and the life of the nation and shaping both the matter and manner of his work, is the unifying subject of Exiled Royalties. |
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... Reading the letter years ago I was struck by its remarkable premonition of decay: “But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of the bulb, and that shortly the flower must fall to the mould” (Corr 193). The question xii p r e fa c e.
... Reading the letter years ago I was struck by its remarkable premonition of decay: “But I feel that I am now come to the inmost leaf of the bulb, and that shortly the flower must fall to the mould” (Corr 193). The question xii p r e fa c e.
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... (Corr 193). The question I asked then, and continue to ask, is why a thirty-one-year old writer just beginning to realize his powers should have felt himself on the verge of dissolution. And yet Pierre followed within months. Warner ...
... (Corr 193). The question I asked then, and continue to ask, is why a thirty-one-year old writer just beginning to realize his powers should have felt himself on the verge of dissolution. And yet Pierre followed within months. Warner ...
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Melville and the Life We Imagine Robert Milder. This page intentionally left blank abbreviations for frequently cited sources BB BP CM Corr MD.
Melville and the Life We Imagine Robert Milder. This page intentionally left blank abbreviations for frequently cited sources BB BP CM Corr MD.
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... Corr MD Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative). Ed. Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. The Battle-Pieces of Herman Melville. Ed. Hennig Cohen. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1963. C ...
... Corr MD Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative). Ed. Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. The Battle-Pieces of Herman Melville. Ed. Hennig Cohen. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1963. C ...
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... (Corr 193), the unfolding of mind that began with his writing of Typee (1846) had a long foreground, crucial to which were the more than three and a half years he spent in the Pacific. Ontologically, his experience of the wonder and ...
... (Corr 193), the unfolding of mind that began with his writing of Typee (1846) had a long foreground, crucial to which were the more than three and a half years he spent in the Pacific. Ontologically, his experience of the wonder and ...
目次
3 | |
Melville and PostRomanticism | 27 |
Melvilles Metaphysics of Democracy Hawthorne and His Mosses | 50 |
Ishmaels Grand Erections | 72 |
5 Exiled Royalties | 97 |
Melville Hawthorne and the Varieties of Homoerotic Experience | 118 |
Melville and the Mediterranean 185657 | 149 |
8 Uncivil Wars | 168 |
Agnostic Spirituality in Clarel | 192 |
10 Alms for Oblivion | 221 |
Notes | 249 |
Index | 285 |
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