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Melville's other lives : bodies on trial in The piazza tales / Christopher Sten.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Peculiar bodies : stories and historiesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0813945453
  • 9780813945453
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Melville's other livesDDC classification:
  • 813/.3 23/eng/20220410
LOC classification:
  • PS2384.P433
Online resources:
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".
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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".

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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