Melville & women / edited by Elizabeth Schultz and Haskell Springer.

Other author Schultz, Elizabeth A.
Other author Springer, Haskell S.
Format Book
Publication InfoKent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, ©2006.
Descriptionviii, 287 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Characters. --Women.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Relations with women.
Women in literature.
Novelists, American--19th century. --Biography.

Spine title Melville and women
Contents Melville writing women/women writing Melville / Elizabeth Schultz and Haskell Springer -- Melville and the women in his life / Laurie Robertson-Lorant -- Women reading Melville/Melville reading women / Charlene Avallone -- Piazza to the north : Melville reading Sedgwick / Peter Balaam -- Bartleby and Uncle Christopher's : sites of wage slavery and domestic abuse / Elizabeth Schultz -- Tender kinswoman : Gail Hamilton and gendered justice in Billy Budd / Wyn Kelley -- Melville and Isabel : the author and the woman within in the inside narrative of Pierre / Wendy Stallard Flory -- Women, ownership, and gothic manhood in Pierre / Ellen Weinauer -- Island queens : women and power in Melville's South Pacific / Juniper Ellis -- Suckled by the sea : the maternal in Moby-Dick / Rita Bode -- Of cuttle-fish and women : Melville's Goneril in The confidence-man / Beverly A. Hume -- When silence speaks : the Chola widow / Maria Felisa López Liquete -- Circassian longings : Melville's orientalization of Eden / Timothy Marr.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 252-270) and index.
LCCN 2005034829
ISBN0873388593 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780873388597

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS2388.W6 M45 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold