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Melville's other lives : bodies on trial in The piazza tales / Christopher Sten.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sten, Christopher, 1944- author.
- Series:
- Peculiar bodies: stories and histories.
- Peculiar bodies : stories and histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body in literature.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Piazza tales.
- Melville, Herman.
- Lightning-rod man (Melville, Herman).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2022]
- 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.
- 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".
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sten, Christopher Melville’s Other Lives
- ISBN:
- 9780813945453
- 0813945453
- OCLC:
- 1310469689
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