Melville's Other Lives : Bodies on Trial in The Piazza Tales /

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"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
Autor principal: Sten, Christopher, 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891. > Piazza tales.
Lightning-rod man (Melville, Herman)
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Short stories, American.
Human body in literature.
Corps humain dans la litterature.
Nouvelles americaines > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Short stories, American > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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".

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