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This book unfurls and examines the anti-slavery allegory at the subtextual core of Herman Melville’s famed novel, Moby-Dick. Brian Pellar points to symbols and allusions in the novel such as the albinism of the famed whale, the “Ship of State” motif, Calhoun’s “cords,” the equator, Jonah, Narcissus, St. Paul, and Thomas Hobbe’s Leviathan. The work contextualizes these devices within a historical discussion of the Compromise of 1850 and subsequently strengthened Fugitive Slave Laws. Drawing on a rich variety of sources such as unpublished papers, letters, reviews, and family memorabilia, the chapters discuss the significance of these laws within Melville’s own life. After clarifying the hidden allegory interconnecting black slaves and black whales, this book carefully sheds the layers of a hidden meaning that will be too convincing to ignore for future readings: Moby-Dick is ultimately a novel that is intimately connected with questions of race, slavery, and the state. .
American literature --- Literature --- History --- slavernij --- literatuur --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- Melville, Herman --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- America
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Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature. Beyond the limits of national literary historiography, and neocolonial cartography of world literary discourse, the minor character Parsee Fedallah in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) is a messenger who travels from the margins of the American literature canon to his Persian literary counterparts in contemporary Iranian fiction and film, above all, the rural woman Mergan in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s novel Missing Soluch (1980). In contention with Eurocentric treatments of world literatures, and in recognition of efforts to recast the worldliness of American and Persian literatures, this book maintains that aesthetic properties are embedded in their local histories and formative geographies. .
Comparative literature --- American literature --- Literature --- Asian literature --- postkolonialisme --- literatuur --- wereldliteratuur --- Dowlatabadi, Mahmoud --- Melville, Herman --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999
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This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechêne calls the metacognitive mystery tale. It delineates a corpus of texts presenting 'unreadable' mysteries which, under the deceptively monolithic appearance of subverting traditional detective story conventions, offer a multiplicity of motifs – the overwhelming presence of chance, the unfulfilled quest for knowledge, the urban stroller lost in a labyrinthine text – that generate a vast array of epistemological and ontological uncertainties. Analysing the works of a wide variety of authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, and Henry James, this book is vital reading for scholars of detective fiction.
American literature --- English literature --- Literature --- detectiveromans --- literatuur --- Engelse literatuur --- Borges, Jorge Luis --- Auster, Paul --- Beckett, Samuel --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- James, Henry --- Bolaño, Roberto --- Poe, Edgar Allan --- Melville, Herman --- Quiroga, Horacio --- anno 1900-1999 --- Great Britain --- Ireland --- Europe --- America
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This book maps the history of literary celebrity from the early nineteenth century to the present, paying special attention to the authors’ crafting of their writerly self as well as the afterlife of their public image. Case studies are John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Eliza Cook, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, J.D. Salinger and Zadie Smith. Literary celebrity is part and parcel of modern literary culture, yet it continues to raise intriguing questions about the nature of authorship, writerly fame and the tension between authorial self-fashioning and public appropriation. This volume provides unique insights into the phenomenon.
Fiction --- Sociology of literature --- American literature --- English literature --- fantasy --- literatuur --- Amerikaanse cultuur --- Engelse literatuur --- Wilde, Oscar --- Salinger, J.D. --- Keats, John --- Smith, Zadie --- Cook, Eliza --- Stein, Gertrude --- Poe, Edgar Allan --- Melville, Herman --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- Great Britain --- Ireland --- United States of America
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This book investigates emotion in early modern Scotland, and provides the first exploration of a Scottish individual's life and writing in light of the recent major advances in the study of emotion. It does this through the example of James Melville, a minister in the Reformed Protestant Church, whose autobiographical writing provides one of the earliest and fullest opportunities to explore the emotional world and range of experiences of an individual, offering the chance for a more rounded analysis of emotional experiences and language than has ever been offered for Scotland at the time. This book contributes a crucial new geographical and cultural context to the expanding world of the history of emotions in the early modern period. John McCallum is Senior Lecturer in History at Nottingham Trent University, UK. .
Religious studies --- History of civilization --- History --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of Eastern Europe --- History of Europe --- nieuwste tijd --- religie --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- geschiedenis --- Europese geschiedenis --- nieuwe tijd --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Europe --- Emotions --- Reformation --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Melville, James,
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color [perceived attribute] --- philosophy of art --- Art --- art [fine art] --- Cash, Johnny --- Halley, Peter --- Vasarely, Victor --- Truitt, Anne --- Ono, Yoko --- Léger, Fernand --- Itten, Johannes --- Rothko, Mark --- Newman, Barnett --- Cruz-Diez, Carlos --- Melville, Herman --- Koolhaas, Rem --- Riley, Bridget --- Moreau, Gustave --- Corbusier, Le --- Shonibare, Yinka --- Ozenfant, Amédée --- Brusatin, Manlio --- Balla, Giacomo --- Smith, Melanie --- Denis, Maurice --- Marden, Brice --- Ruskin, John --- Durham, Jimmie --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig J.J. --- Judd, Donald --- Spengler, Oswald --- Buren, Daniel --- Gleizes, Albert --- Smithson, Robert --- Blanc, Charles-Alexandre-Philippe-Auguste --- Boccioni, Umberto --- Jung, Carl Gustav --- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice --- Bell, Clive --- Reis, Pedro Cabrita --- Michaux, Henri --- Brakhage, Stan --- Olitski, Jules --- Delaunay, Robert --- Stokes, Adrian --- Welling, James --- Matisse, Henri --- Kandinsky, Vasili Vassileevich --- Manzoni, Piero --- Metzinger, Jean --- Rimbaud, Arthur --- Lévi-Strauss, Claude --- Baudelaire, Charles --- Marcos [Subcomandante Insurgente] --- Kundera, Milan --- Gabo, Naum --- Fry, Roger Eliot --- Albers, Josef --- Stockholder, Jessica --- Batchelor, David --- Adorno, Theodor W. --- Pynchon, Thomas --- Frankenthaler, Helen --- Deleuze, Gilles --- Kelly, Ellsworth --- Reed, David --- Nordau, Max --- Eco, Umberto --- Rodtschenko, Alexander Michajlowitsch --- Delaunay, Sonia --- Auster, Paul --- Carrà, Carlo --- Gass, William H. --- Huysmans, Joris-Karl --- Severini, Gino --- Huxley, Aldous --- Whiteread, Rachel --- Doesburg, van, Theo --- Eisenstein, Sergei M. --- Gogh, van, Vincent --- Noland, Kenneth --- Baudrillard, Jean --- Tarantino, Quentin --- Rilke, Rainer Maria --- Kelley, Mike --- Milhazes, Beatriz --- Benjamin, Walter --- Jarman, Derek --- Oiticica, Hélio --- Signac, Paul --- Hiller, Susan --- Richter, Gerhard --- Allais, Alphonse --- Barthes, Roland --- Mondriaan, Piet --- Klein, Yves --- Morris, Robert --- Calvino, Italo --- Gauguin, Paul --- Klee, Paul --- Reinhardt, Ad --- Kristeva, Julia --- Malevitsj, Kasimir --- Derrida, Jacques --- Bochner, Mel --- Berenson, Bernard --- Dean, Tacita --- Russolo, Luigi --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- Color in art --- Color (Philosophy) --- kunst --- kunsttheorie --- kleur --- kleurtheorie --- twintigste eeuw --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- Adorno Theodor --- Albers Josef --- Barthes Roland --- Baudelaire Charles --- Baudrillard Jean --- Benjamin Walter --- Blanc Charles --- Birren Faber --- Bochner Mel --- Brik Osip --- Brusatin Manlio --- Buren Daniel --- Le Corbusier --- Delaunay Robert --- Delaunay Sonia --- Denis Maurice --- van Doesburg Theo --- Durham Jimmie --- de Duve Thierry --- Eco Umberto --- Frankenthaler Helen --- Gauguin Paul --- Halley Peter --- Huysmans Joris-Karl --- Itten Johannes --- Kandinsky Wassily --- Kelley Mike --- Klee Paul --- Klein Yves --- Kristeva Julia --- Lévi-Strauss Claude --- Lichtenstein Jacqueline --- Magnetic Fields --- Malevich Kazimir --- Manzoni Piero --- Mondriaan Piet --- Newman Barnett --- Noland Kenneth --- Oiticica Hélio --- Olitski Jules --- Reinhardt Ad --- Richter Gerhard --- Riley Bridget --- Rilke Rainer Maria --- Rothko Mark --- Ruskin John --- Shonibare Yinka --- Signac Paul --- van Gogh Vincent --- Wittgenstein Ludwig --- 7.017 --- Color in art. --- Art, Modern. --- Kunst ; optische effecten, perspectief, illusie --- 7.048.3 --- Kleur in de kunst ; 20ste en 21ste eeuw --- Iconografie ; licht, beweging, kleur --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig --- Corbusier, le --- Art, Modern --- Colors in art --- Monochrome art --- Modern art --- Nieuwe Ploeg (Group of artists) --- art [discipline] --- Kandinsky, Wassily
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