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