TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sten,Christopher
TI  - Melville's other lives: bodies on trial in The piazza tales 
T2  - Peculiar bodies : stories and histories
SN  - 0813945453
AV  - PS2384.P433 
U1  - 813/.3 23/eng/20220410
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Melville, Herman,
KW  - Lightning-rod man (Melville, Herman)
KW  - fast
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Human body in literature
KW  - Nouvelles am�ericaines
KW  - 19e si�ecle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Corps humain dans la litt�erature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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"
N2  - "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"--
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