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"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sten, Christopher, 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Series:Peculiar bodies : stories and histories
Subjects:
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891. > Piazza tales.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891.
Lightning-rod man (Melville, Herman)
1800-1899
Short stories, American > 19th century > History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Nouvelles américaines > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Short stories, American.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "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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