Gothic Melville / edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Monika Elbert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew, editor.

Elbert, Monika, editor.

Series:

Gothic literary studies.

Gothic Literary Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, England : University of Wales Press, [2024]

Summary:

This scholarly work explores the Gothic elements in the writings of Herman Melville, examining how his works interact with themes of ecogothicism, corporeality, democracy, tyranny, gender, and relationships. The book is divided into thematic parts, each focusing on different aspects of Melville's use of Gothic conventions, such as monstrous bodies, radical democracy, and the queer uncanny. Contributors analyze Melville's literary engagement with capitalism, cannibalism, and the role of women in his narratives. Aimed at academics and students of literary and cultural studies, the book offers innovative critiques of Melville's work through the lens of Gothic literary studies. Generated by AI.

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Introduction: Dead, Blind Walls: Melville’s Gothicism Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Monika Elbert

Part I: Ecogothic

1 Spectre-Tortoises and Other Monstrous Bodies in Melville’s ‘The Encantadas’ Lisa West

2 ‘All dripping in tangles green’: The Ecogothic Vision of Melville’s John Marr and Other Sailors with Some Sea Pieces Steve Bellomy

3 ‘If there be no God’: Gothicism in Clarel Elizabeth Ann Adams

Part II: Bodies as Matter

4 Attack of the ‘Undoffable Incubus’: The Problem of Art as Body in Herman Melville’s Pierre Michael Adam Schwartz

5 Those Who Eat and Those Who Get Eaten: Cannibalism and Capitalism in Melville’s Typee and ‘The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids’ Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

6 ‘The Body Suspended’: The Gothic Corporeality in Billy Budd Christopher Love

Part III: Democracy and Tyranny

7 The Gothic and Radical Democracy in Melville’s Benito Cereno Eric A. Wolfe

8 Melville’s Cynical Gothic: The Confidence-Man and the Antebellum Crisis of Critique Craig Stensrud

9 Ahab as Gothic Hero-Villain Jonathan A. Cook

10 Sunday in the Office with Bartleby: Melville’s Protonaturalist Gothic Wendy Ryden

Part IV: Gender and Gothic Relationships

11 Crossing ‘the Deadly Space Between’: Melville and the Queer Uncanny Gale Temple

12 Gothic Vacancies: The Missing Women in Melville’s Works Monika Elbert

13 ‘By their very contradictions they are made to correspond’: Gothic Convention in Herman Melville’s Pierre Daniel Jenkin-Smith and Abigail Boucher

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ISBN:

9781837721498

1837721491

OCLC:

1451797521