Timothy Donahue
Biographic Data
| ID | 9516904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Donahue |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Donahue |
| SIGNATURE | DONAHUE T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Melville's Quixoticism and the Modern World-System
“I promise nothing complete,” says Ishmael in Moby-Dick (1851), “because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty” (Melville 117). Notwithstanding this disavowal of comprehensiveness, Melville's novel offers a number of quite capacious portraits of the modern world. Consider, for instance, the global vision that emerges as Ishmael compares geopolitical conquest to the taking of “loose-fish,” whales a…
Joaquín’s Head: Theatrical Punishment, Public Address, and Novelistic Politics in the United States–Mexico Borderlands
This essay reconsiders the relation between novel and state by examining the circulation of the story of Joaquín Murieta, a Gold Rush-era borderlands bandit. First novelized in John Rollin Ridge’s 1854 The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Joaquín story would be retold in a series English, French, and Spanish adaptations published in California, Paris, Madrid, and New York. I trace the story’s movement through these locales, focusing on…
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Joaquín’s Head: Theatrical Punishment, Public Address, and Novelistic Politics in the United States–Mexico Borderlands
This essay reconsiders the relation between novel and state by examining the circulation of the story of Joaquín Murieta, a Gold Rush-era borderlands bandit. First novelized in John Rollin Ridge’s 1854 The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Joaquín story would be retold in a series English, French, and Spanish adaptations published in California, Paris, Madrid, and New York. I trace the story’s movement through these locales, focusing on…
Melville's Quixoticism and the Modern World-System
“I promise nothing complete,” says Ishmael in Moby-Dick (1851), “because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty” (Melville 117). Notwithstanding this disavowal of comprehensiveness, Melville's novel offers a number of quite capacious portraits of the modern world. Consider, for instance, the global vision that emerges as Ishmael compares geopolitical conquest to the taking of “loose-fish,” whales a…
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