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Melville's other lives : bodies on trial in The piazza tales /

"This book analyzes the six stories in Melville's 'The Piazza Tales' with an emphasis on issues of embodiment-invalidism or disability, pain, trauma, enslavement, performance, monsters-and related systems of cultural values defined by race, class, and gender"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sten, Christopher, 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Colección:Peculiar bodies : stories and histories
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "The piazza" and Melville's Sickroom
  • "Bartleby, the scrivener" : the body (and soul) in pain
  • "Casting a shadow" : representing race and trauma in "Benito cereno"
  • Playing smart, playing dumb : performance in "The lightning-rod man"
  • "The encantadas, or enchanted isles" : bodies as fragments
  • Docile monsters and enslavement in "The bell-tower".