Milder, Robert.

Exiled royalties Melville and the life we imagine / [electronic resource] : Robert Milder. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. - xx, 290 p. ; 24 cm.

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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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --Political and social views.


Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Novelists, American--19th century--Biography.
Democracy in literature.


Electronic books.

PS2386 / .M487 2006eb

813/.3 B