Subversive genealogy : the politics and art of Herman Melville

Author(s)

• Rogin, Michael Paul

Bibliographic Information

Subversive genealogy : the politics and art of Herman Melville

Michael Paul Rogin

University of California Press, 1985, c1983

• : pbk

Note

"CALIFORNIA PAPERBACK EDITION"--T.p. verso

Notes: p. [319]-347

Includes index

Reprint. Originally published: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In this major reconsideration of Herman Melville's life and work, Michael Rogin shows that Melville's novels are connected both to the important issues of his time and to the exploits of his patrician and politically prominent family.

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• NCID: BB2361866X
• ISBN:
  • 9780520051782
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Berkeley, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 354 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS2388.P6
  • DC19 : 813/.3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Political and social views
  • LCSH : Politics in literature
  • LCSH : Family in literature