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K837.125.6/53 版次： |
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K837.125.6 版次： |
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著者:
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Sachs, Aaron. |
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题名:
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Up from the Depths : [ Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and rediscovery in dark times /] / , |
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其它题名:
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Up From the Depths |
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出版地： Princeton : 出版社： Princeton University Press, 出版日期： 2022. |
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载体形态:
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473 p. ; 25 cm. |
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内容提要:
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Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history Dthe novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819 C1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895 C1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers, Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives, work, and troubled times Dand their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis. The author of Moby-Dick was largely forgotten for several decades after his death, but Mumford helped spearhead Melville' s revival in the aftermath of World War I and the 1918 C1919 flu pandemic, when American culture needed a forebear with a suitably dark vision. As Mumford' s career took off and he wrote books responding to the machine age, urban decay, world war, and environmental degradation, it was looking back to Melville' s confrontation with crises such as industrialization, slavery, and the Civil War that helped Mumford to see his own era clearly. Mumford remained obsessed with Melville, ultimately helping to canonize him as America' s greatest tragedian. But largely forgotten today is one of Mumford' s key insights Dthat Melville' s darkness was balanced by an inspiring determination to endure. Amid today' s foreboding over global warming, racism, technology, pandemics, and other crises, Melville and Mumford remind us that we' ve been in this struggle for a long time. To rediscover these writers today is to rediscover how history can offer hope in dark times. |
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主题词:
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Critics United States |
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Authors, American 19th century |
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K837.125.6/53 |