| Autor: |
Tony McGowan |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />French |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, Vol 26 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2108-6559 |
| DOI: |
10.4000/miranda.47664 |
| Popis: |
recentering critical attention upon under-explored textual and visual Horatio Nelson sources—especially The Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson by Dr. William Beatty and The Death of Nelson by the portrait painter, Arthur William Devis—this essay argues that the Nelson/Billy analogy must join the Nelson/Vere analogy if we are to more fully appreciate the genesis, ekphrastic aesthetics, and indeterminate political tenor of Billy Budd, Sailor. In reaction to Beatty and Devis Melville redeploys his commitment to Turner’s “aesthetic of the indistinct” with new attention to manipulating the distinct details of power dynamics as evidenced in group portraiture. Melville’s creative appropriations from and distortions of the Nelson Archive allows him to overflow the formal expectations of veneration within the secular hagiography industry and to subtly address the precarity of democratic life in the compositional present of the late 19th century. |
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