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Herman Melville and the American Calling: The Fiction After Moby-Dick, 1851-1857

Herman Melville and the American Calling: The Fiction After Moby-Dick, 1851-1857

William V. Spanos
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Oriented by the new Americanist perspective, this book constitutes a rereading of Herman Melville's most prominent fiction after Moby-Dick. In contrast to prior readings of this fiction, William V. Spanos's interpretation takes as its point of departure the theme of spectrality precipitated by the metaphor of orphanage--disaffiliation from the symbolic fatherland, on the one hand, and the myth of American exceptionalism on the other--that emerged as an abiding motif in Melville's creative imagination. This book voices an original argument about Melville's status as an American writer, and foregrounds Melville's remarkable anticipation and critique of the exceptionalism that continues to drive American policy in the post-9/11 era.
Language
English
Pages
294
Format
Paperback
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Release
July 01, 2009
ISBN
0791475646
ISBN 13
9780791475645

Herman Melville and the American Calling: The Fiction After Moby-Dick, 1851-1857

William V. Spanos
4.5/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Oriented by the new Americanist perspective, this book constitutes a rereading of Herman Melville's most prominent fiction after Moby-Dick. In contrast to prior readings of this fiction, William V. Spanos's interpretation takes as its point of departure the theme of spectrality precipitated by the metaphor of orphanage--disaffiliation from the symbolic fatherland, on the one hand, and the myth of American exceptionalism on the other--that emerged as an abiding motif in Melville's creative imagination. This book voices an original argument about Melville's status as an American writer, and foregrounds Melville's remarkable anticipation and critique of the exceptionalism that continues to drive American policy in the post-9/11 era.
Language
English
Pages
294
Format
Paperback
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Release
July 01, 2009
ISBN
0791475646
ISBN 13
9780791475645

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