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Author:

Milder, Robert.

Title:

Exiled royalties : Melville and the life we imagine / Robert Milder.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xx, 290 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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 literature.

Notes:

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

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.

ISBN:

9780195142327
9780195142327 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
0195142322 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62474752

LCCN:

2005006680

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)