| Description |
viii, 287 p., 8 p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-270) and index. |
| 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 Lopez Liquete -- Circassian longings : Melville's orientalization of Eden / Timothy Marr. |
| Subject |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Characters -- Women.
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Women in literature.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Relations with women.
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Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Schultz, Elizabeth A.
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Springer, Haskell S.
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| Spine Title |
Melville and women |
| ISBN |
0873388593 (alk. paper) |
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9780873388597 |
| Standard No. |
9780873388597 |
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YDXCP 2385800 |
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