Melville [electronic resource] : fashioning in modernity

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서명/저자사항	Melville [electronic resource]: fashioning in modernity / Stephen Matterson.
개인저자	Matterson, Stephen.
발행사항	New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
형태사항	1 online resource.
기타형태 저록	Print version: Matterson, Stephen. Melville 9781623563677
ISBN	9781623560553 (electronic bk.) 1623560551 (electronic bk.)
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Herman Melville's blue-jean careerChapter One: So unspeakably significant: Melville, Hawthorne and the shawlsChapter Two: A very strange compound indeed: Carlyle, Redburn and White-JacketChapter Three: He was an European, and had Cloaths on: Typee.Chapter Four: The dress befitted the fate: Israel Potter's LivesChapter Five: These buttons that we wear: Billy Budd.
요약	"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"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
주제명(개인명)	Melville, Herman,1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
일반주제명	Clothing and dress in literature. Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. Civilization, Modern, in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
분류기호(DDC)	813.3
언어	영어
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