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Title:

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

Publisher:

Kent State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

viii, 287 p., 8 p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Melville, Herman,--1819-1891--Women.--Women.
Women in literature.
Melville, Herman,--1819-1891--Relations with women.
Novelists, American--19th century--Biography.

Other Authors:

Schultz, Elizabeth A.
Springer, Haskell S.

Notes:

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 López Liquete -- Circassian longings : Melville's orientalization of Eden / Timothy Marr.

ISBN:

9780873388597 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0873388593 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005034829

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)