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Exiled royalties [electronic resource] : Melville and the life we imagine / Robert Milder.

By: Milder, Robert.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xx, 290 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): 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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 813/.3 | B Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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813/.3 B (Browse shelf) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-284) and index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.