Melville and women
By: edited by Elizabeth Schultz and Haskell Springer.
Contributors: Schultz, Elizabeth.; Springer, Haskell S.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780873388597
Subjects: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Characters -- Women.; Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Relations with women.; Women in literature.; Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Melville writing women/women writing Melville / Elizabeth Schultz and Haskell Springer; title: Melville and the women in his life / Laurie Robertson-Lorant; title: Women reading Melville/Melville reading women / Charlene Avallone; title: Piazza to the north : Melville reading Sedgwick / Peter Balaam; title: Bartleby and Uncle Christopher's : wage slavery and domestic abuse / Elizabeth Schultz; title: Tender kinswoman : gendered justice in Billy Budd, sailor / Wyn Kelley; title: Melville and Isabel : the author and the woman within in Pierre / Wendy Flory; title: Women, ownership, and gothic manhood in Pierre / Ellen Weinauer; title: Her majesty and power in Melville's South Pacific / Juniper Ellis; title: Suckled by the sea : the maternal in Moby-Dick / Rita Bode; title: Of cuttle-fish and women : Goneril in The confidence-man / Beverly Hume; title: When silence speaks : sketch eighth of The Encantadas : Norfolk Isle and the Chola widow / Maria Felisa Lopez Liquete; title: Circassian longings : Melville and the Oriental Eve / Timothy Marr.