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...John Evelev Duke University Press 2003 John ‘‘Every One to His Trade Mardi, Literary Form, Evelev and Professional Ideology 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 63 of 246 My...

... publisher (who was likely alarmed by harsh reviews of the relentlessly allegorical Mardi, just released) that the next book would consist of “no metaphysics, no conic-sections, nothing but cakes & ale.” After Redburn came out, he wrote in his journal, “I, the author, know [it] to be trash...

... for prophecy as well as history. Marking with their explosions the transition between accumulation and expenditure, they testify to the writer’s abiding interest in geo- logical science and its politico-theological implications. In Mardi, we recall, the tyrannical King Media finds his claims...

... affects and swift unreflective action. Three years later, in Mardi (1849), he linked lapses in self-consciousness to popular support for imperial war: “And though unlike King Bello of Dominora, your great chieftain, sovereign-kings! may not declare war of himself; nevertheless, has he...

..., more then [sic] their late experience of harder times hath made wise.17 Like Parliament, the sailors of ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ are unimproved by their hard experience. Or, as Melville writes in Mardi (1849), despite...

..., and ideologies” that operated as an aesthetic and philosophical resource for Melville’s novels and poems. Berthold traces the author’s writings chronologically to show how Melville’s literary imagination drew from, and reflected American attitudes about, Risorgimento nationalism. From Mardi...

... this and similarly satiric political ma- terial in Mardi, of which Duyckinck wrote one of the few favorable reviews appearingin the springof 1849. 41 But Mathews and the Duyckincks were conservatives in other re...

... with a generational overview of scholarship on Melville’s Pacific works, which include Typee, Omoo, Mardi, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, “The Encantadas,” and “Benito Cereno.” In the most recent generation of criticism, Samuel Otter’s Melville’s Anatomies (1998) and Geoffrey Sanborn’s The Sign of the Cannibal...

... on Melville’s Pacific works, which include Typee, Omoo, Mardi, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, “The Encantadas,” and “Benito Cereno.” In the most recent generation of criticism, Samuel Otter’s Melville’s Anatomies (1998) and Geoffrey Sanborn’s The Sign of the Cannibal (1998) serve as apt foundational texts...

... Society conference held in Maui in 2003—is a remarkable achieve- ment. Edited skillfully by Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten, the book opens with a generational overview of scholarship on Melville’s Pacific works, which include Typee, Omoo, Mardi, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick...

... on Melville’s Pacific works, which include Typee, Omoo, Mardi, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, “The Encantadas,” and “Benito Cereno.” In the most recent generation of criticism, Samuel Otter’s Melville’s Anatomies (1998) and Geoffrey Sanborn’s The Sign of the Cannibal (1998) serve as apt foundational texts...

... on Melville’s Pacific works, which include Typee, Omoo, Mardi, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, “The Encantadas,” and “Benito Cereno.” In the most recent generation of criticism, Samuel Otter’s Melville’s Anatomies (1998) and Geoffrey Sanborn’s The Sign of the Cannibal (1998) serve as apt foundational texts...

... in Maui in 2003—is a remarkable achieve- ment. Edited skillfully by Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten, the book opens with a generational overview of scholarship on Melville’s Pacific works, which include Typee, Omoo, Mardi, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, “The Encantadas,” and “Benito...

... in Maui in 2003—is a remarkable achieve- ment. Edited skillfully by Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten, the book opens with a generational overview of scholarship on Melville’s Pacific works, which include Typee, Omoo, Mardi, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, “The Encantadas,” and “Benito...

... on Melville’s Pacific works, which include Typee, Omoo, Mardi, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, “The Encantadas,” and “Benito Cereno.” In the most recent generation of criticism, Samuel Otter’s Melville’s Anatomies (1998) and Geoffrey Sanborn’s The Sign of the Cannibal (1998) serve as apt foundational texts...

.... Brennan’s historical introduction is followed by essays on folklore, captivity narratives, Mardi Gras Indian Performance, and contemporary African American and Native Ameri- can subjectivity as addressed in the works of authors like Alice Walker, Leslie Marmon Silko, Toni Morrison, and Sherman Alexie...

... rigorously analyzed into a relation of identity, is an unnameable and interchangeable essence. In the next world, only that essence will remain; everything else will have been burned away. ‘‘Away with our stares and grimaces Melville writes in Mardi. ‘‘The New Zealander’s tattooing is not a prodigy; nor...

... Reviews 425 conversation with timeless signification. Throughout his analysis Wegener tries to remain faithful to what he considers Melville’s conception of time and to a frequently quoted passage from Mardi...

... Reviews 425 conversation with timeless signification. Throughout his analysis Wegener tries to remain faithful to what he considers Melville’s conception of time and to a frequently quoted passage from Mardi...

... Reviews 425 conversation with timeless signification. Throughout his analysis Wegener tries to remain faithful to what he considers Melville’s conception of time and to a frequently quoted passage from Mardi...