Melville's Vision of Society : A Study of the Paradoxical Interrelations in Melville's Major Novels
Description:
I hold that Melvillean society consists of paradoxical relationships between civilization and barbarianism, evil and good, the corrupt and the natural, the individual and the collective, and the primitive and the advanced. Because these terms are arbitrary and, in the context of the novels, somewhat interchangeable, I explore Melville's thoughts as those emerge in the following groups of novels: Typee, Omoo, and White-Jacket demonstrate the paradox of Melvillean society; Redburn, Moby-Dick, and…
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Date:
May 1995
Creator:
Terzis, Timothy R. (Timothy Randolph)