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Melville :

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1623562007

(Number (ISBN

1623563674

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9781623562007

(Number (ISBN

9781623563677

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b421446

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Melville :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

fashioning in modernity /

First Statement of Responsibility

Stephen Matterson

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

232 pages ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index

Text of Note

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 Cloaths on: Typee -- 4. The dress befitted the fate: Israel Potter's Lives -- 5. These buttons that we wear: Billy Budd

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Text of Note

"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"--

Melville, Herman,1819-1891-- Criticism and interpretation

Civilization, Modern, in literature

Clothing and dress in literature

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature

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Edition

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Book number

Matterson, Stephen

Date of Transaction

20150206093414.0

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rda

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[Book]

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