Melville's Doctrine of Assumptions
"The Hidden Ideology of Capitalist Production in "Bartleby
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16306243 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Kuebrich (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 381 |
| Publication date | 1996-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/366781 |
| OpenAlex | W2335550148 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
PRIOR to beginning work on Bartleby in early 1853, Herman Melville had not only encountered many of the essential arguments structuring the radical labor tradition but he had also personally tasted the frustration and oppression fueling its inner spirit. Various aspects of Melville's life-his family's economic decline, his futile search for work on the Erie Canal, in Galena, Illinois, and in New York City in the late 1830s, his subsequent decision to become a commercial sailor and whaler, and the quasi-enslavement he experienced at sea-gave him an acute personal sense of the discrepancy between the nation's economic practices and its purported democratic and Christian ideals, an understanding he would soon embody in one of his most baffling tales
Aesthetics · Democracy · Doctrine · Ideology · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2021 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |