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Herman Melville : Between Charlemagne and

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ISBN-10: 0970030827

ISBN-13: 9780970030825

Edition: 2006

Authors: Loren Goldner

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In Europe, after 1848, bourgeois consciousness in revolt sought a new universal in the working class but soon found itself in the orbit of the state civil service; in America, bourgeois consciousness in revolt found a new universal in what Melville called "antemosaic" reality, Queequeg, embodied in the multiracial working class, the "anacharsis Cloots deputation," in radical antithesis to the state. Through a series of scholarly, linked essays, Goldner examines the works of Melville, the dispossessed grand bourgeois, and his treatment of race and class. The 1848-1850 conjuncture in the Atlantic world witnessed the birth of communism (Marx), modern art (Courbet, Flaubert), the end of…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Queequeg Publications
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English