Tag: Clarel

  • Miscegenetic Melville: Race and Reconstruction in Clarel Zach Hutchins, Assistant Professor of English Colorado State University ELH Volume 80, Number 4, Winter 2013 pages 1173-1203 DOI: 10.1353/elh.2013.0039 This essay investigates Herman Melville’s views on Reconstruction and racism in Clarel, the national epic published in the centennial year of 1876. In Clarel, Melville points toward miscegenation…