An edition of Melville (2014)

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fashioning in modernity

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An edition of Melville (2014)

Melville

fashioning in modernity

"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"--

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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Language
English
Pages
232

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Melville: fashioning in modernity
2014, Bloomsbury
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Herman Melville's blue-jean career
1. So unspeakably significant: Melville, Hawthorne and the shawls
2. A very strange compound indeed: Carlyle, Redburn and White-Jacket
3. He was an European, and had clothes on: Typee
4. The dress befitted the fate: Israel Potter's Lives
5.These buttons that we wear: Billy Budd.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.3
Library of Congress
PS2387 .M34 2014, PS2387.M34 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
232 pages
Number of pages
232

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31016760M
ISBN 13
9781623563677, 9781623562007, 9781623566067, 9781623560553
LCCN
2014003677
OCLC/WorldCat
876466296

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