Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man : Race, Class and the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology in an American Renaissance Writer | Loren Goldner
Herman Melville was a grand bourgeois, with aristocratic overtones, whose life path abruptly turned downward at 13 with the bankruptcy, madness, and death of his father in 1831. This new study reveals how Melville's literary works echo the idology of his day.
Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man : Race, Class and the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology in an American Renaissance Writer | 
