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Melville : fashioning in modernity
\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.
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\But why are the parrots on his shirt blue?\: Irish Students Respond to Flannery O'Connor
[...]those of us who are US literature specialists in Ireland have often reflected on the striking lack of international perspectives on US writers. [...]tutors almost always tended to bring in material by writers whom the students were unlikely to have encountered at secondary school. [...]public transport as well as public space played an interesting role in this option-from Plessy vs Ferguson (crucial for our reading of Mark Twain's Puddnhead Wilson) to the Atlanta omnibus boycott, and \"The Artificial Nigger\" with its own representation of the train. [...]students often make a connection between the plantation novel and the Irish Big House novel.
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