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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Matterson, Stephen
Titre(s) : Melville [Texte imprimé] : fashioning in modernity / Stephen Matterson
Publication : New York : Bloomsbury, 2014
Description matérielle : 232 pages ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Melville, Herman (1819-1891) -- Critique et interprétation
Vêtements -- Dans la littérature
Identité (philosophie) -- Dans la littérature
Civilisation moderne -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781623563677 (HB). - ISBN 1623563674 (HB). - ISBN 9781623562007 (PB). - ISBN
1623562007 (PB). - ISBN 9781623566067 (erroné) (ePub). - ISBN 9781623560553 (erroné)
(ePDF). - ISBN 1623566061 (erroné) (ePub). - ISBN 1623560551 (erroné) (ePDF)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb438813558
Notice n° :
FRBNF43881355
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