Herman Melville
Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man: Race, Class, and the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology in the American Renaissance Writer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12673174 |
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| Authors | Robert T Tally (0000-0001-7089-7739, Texas State University, corresponding author), Robert Tally Jr (1Texas State University;, Email: [email protected]) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 235-243 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Materialism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-4466 • E-ISSN: 1569-206X |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/146544609x12469428108781 |
| OpenAlex | W1994283249 |
| Language | EN |
Tally reviews Loren Goldner's Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic King, which posits that Melville was the American Marx, exposing the crisis of bourgeois ideology in the revolutionary period around 1848. In this, Goldner follows a tradition of Marxian scholarship of Melville, notably including C.L.R. James, Michael Paul Rogin, and Cesare Casarino. Tally concludes that Goldner's argument, while interesting, is limited by its focus on American exceptionalism and by ignoring the postnational force of Melville's novels
Argument (complex analysis · Art · Art history · Bourgeoisie · Exceptionalism · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · The Renaissance · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Highly cited | No |
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