The Representation Of The Savage In Selected Works Of James Fenimore Cooper And Herman Melville
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The Representation of the Savage in James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville
Author | : Anna Krauthammer |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820468105 |
Since the seventeenth century, ethnicity has been the central issue in the American search for a national identity. The articulation of this issue can clearly be seen in the representation of non-white others in the literature of the nineteenth century, specifically in the works of James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville. This book examines how both Cooper and Melville manipulated literary images of Native Americans, African Americans, and other non-Europeans, thus revealing how America created the image of the savage - by which it was alternately attracted and repulsed - as a way of defining its own identity.
MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures
Author | : Modern Language Association of America |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2358 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Languages, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Vols. for 1969- include ACTFL annual bibliography of books and articles on pedagogy in foreign languages 1969-
Herman Melville's View of the Savage
Author | : John Corbett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Melville: Fashioning in Modernity
Author | : Stephen Matterson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-07-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1623560551 |
Melville: Fashioning in Modernity considers all of the major fiction with a concentration on lesser-known work, and provides a radically fresh approach to Melville, focusing on: clothing as socially symbolic; dress, power and class; the transgressive nature of dress; inappropriate clothing; the meaning of uniform; the multiplicity of identity that dress may represent; anxiety and modernity. The representation of clothing in the fiction is central to some of Melville's major themes; the relation between private and public identity, social inequality and how this is maintained; the relation between power, justice and authority; the relation between the "civilized" and the "savage." Frequently clothing represents the malleability of identity (its possibilities as well as its limitations), represents writing itself, as well as becoming indicative of the crisis of modernity. Clothing also becomes a trope for Melville's representations of authorship and of his own scene of writing. Melville: Fashioning in Modernity also encompasses identity in transition, making use of the examination of modernity by theorists such as Anthony Giddens, as well as on theories of figures such as the dandy. In contextualizing Melville's interest in clothing, a variety of other works and writers is considered; works such as Robinson Crusoe and The Scarlet Letter, and novelists such as Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Jack London, and George Orwell. The book has at its core a consideration of the scene of writing and the publishing history of each text.
Selected Writings of Herman Melville
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : New York : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 924 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Autobiographical fiction |
ISBN | : |
Limited circulation (7 days). Used in Literature of the Sea class Cruise 1997 (Billy Budd).
Representative Selections
Author | : Herman Melville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Selected criticisms, letters, and poems by Melville are included.