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Melville: Fashioning in Modernity (Hardcover)
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Melville: Fashioning in Modernity (Hardcover)
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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.
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