Melville & women /
Schultz, Elizabeth A.
Springer, Haskell S.
Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-270) and index.
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.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Women in literature.
Novelists, American