No mysteries out of ourselves : identity and textual form in the novels of Herman Melville /
In this book Peter J. Bellis aims to show how Melville's career is shaped by his desire to define and represent the self, to find a secure identity on which to base personal and social relations. Using Typee, Pierre, White-Jacket, Redburn, Billy Budd, and Moby-Dick as models, Bellis isolates th...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©1990.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv4v31rd |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Bodily identity: the changing shape of the physical self
- Genealogical identity: filial repetition and rebellion
- Textual identity: autobiography and the fiction of self-creation
- In confidence: identity as interpretive construction.