Exiled royalties Melville and the life we imagine /

Main Author: Milder, Robert.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10142427
Table of 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.