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The Dissenters: Melville and Brownson
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Abstract
In his classic study Melville’s Quarrel with God, Lawrance Thompson wrote that it would be more appropriate to call Melville a “descendentalist” than a transcendentalist, a witticism that manifests a deeper truth than one might expect: The turn which his life had taken translated him from a transcendentalist and a mystic into an inverted transcendentalist, an inverted mystic. To this extent, then, he was consistent, in spite of all his concomitant inconsistencies, to the very end of his life. Like his own Captain Ahab, he remained a defiant rebel, even in the face of death.
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Title: The Dissenters: Melville and Brownson
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Abstract
In his classic study Melville’s Quarrel with God, Lawrance Thompson wrote that it would be more appropriate to call Melville a “descendentalist” than a transcendentalist, a witticism that manifests a deeper truth than one might expect: The turn which his life had taken translated him from a transcendentalist and a mystic into an inverted transcendentalist, an inverted mystic.
To this extent, then, he was consistent, in spite of all his concomitant inconsistencies, to the very end of his life.
Like his own Captain Ahab, he remained a defiant rebel, even in the face of death.
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