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Subversive genealogy : Herman Melville and the politics of the family by Michael Paul Rogin is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Subversive genealogy : Herman Melville and the politics of the family about?
In this major reconsideration of Herman Melville’s life and work, Michael Paul Rogin shows that Melville’s novels are connected both to the important issues of his time and to the exploits of his patrician and politically prominent family—which, three generations after its Revolutionary War heroes, produced an alcoholic, a bankrupt, and a suicide. Rogin argues that a history of Melville’s fiction, and of the society represented in it, is also a history of the writer’s family. He describes how th
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Michael Paul Rogin
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
- Published
- 1983
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307830944
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Political Science, Literary Fiction, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25