Staging revolution in Melville's 'Benito Cereno': Babo, Figaro, and the "Play of the Barber."(Critical Essay)
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The episode in Herman Melville's 'Benito Cereno' where Babo and Cereno pretend to be a barber and master may have been significantly influenced by Pierre August Caron de Beaumarchais's 'The Barber of Seville.' The theatrical language Melville used demonstrated how bourgeois empowerment eventually produced an elite culture.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 2001
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"In true relations": love, friendship, and alternative society in Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" argued for a free space where new kinds of personal relationships and alternative views of gender could develop. Emerson's sense of individuality remains radical, with its emphasis on community that allows for self-development and diversity.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 2001
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Possibilities lost: transcendental declarations of independence in Hawthorne's 'The Blithedale Romance'
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Nathaniel Hawthorne based 'The Blithedale Romance' on his experiences at Brook Farm, a utopian community. Coverdale, the novel's narrator, joins Blithedale as a transcendental statement of independence from traditional mores, although he is not completely successful in maintaining this attitude.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 2001
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