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
Main Author: Sten, Christopher, 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (200 pages).
ISBN:9780813945453

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