Melville & WomenElizabeth A. Schultz, Haskell S. Springer Kent State University Press, 2006 - 287 sider A comprehensive examination of the significance of women in Melville's life and work The twelve new essays in this collection extend the interest in Melville and women evident in recent scholarship, biography, art, and drama. Throughout his life, Melville lived surrounded by women, and he wove women's experiences into most of his literary work, early and late. Treating his poetry and prose and using a variety of theoretical approaches from the biographical to the ecocritical, the essays focus not only on Melville's female characters but also on gender roles, colonialism, intertextuality, legal issues, and concepts of the female and feminine. Several of them demonstrate his sensitive response to the work of nineteenth-century women authors. Collectively, they open new understandings of a writer too often seen almost wholly in masculine contexts. The comprehensive introduction by the editors surveys women in Melville's writings and situates the essays historically by relating them to scholarship concerning women in Melville's work as well as to Melville scholarship written by women. The essays are complemented by an extensive bibliography, portraits, and a portfolio of paintings created by contemporary women artists in response to Moby-Dick. |
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... describes Melville's sympathetic vision as the rare feat of a male writer's " trying to see from the perspective of the ' other sex ' ... [ and ] in a way highly critical of the advantages of masculin- ity " ( 3-4 ) . Melville's female ...
... describes Melville's sympathetic vision as the rare feat of a male writer's " trying to see from the perspective of the ' other sex ' ... [ and ] in a way highly critical of the advantages of masculin- ity " ( 3-4 ) . Melville's female ...
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... describes these shifts in architectural style as paralleled by a general trend in middle - class city - dwellers ' exodus from the “ wilderness of bricks " in increasingly crowded cities to suburban " borderland ” regions such as the ...
... describes these shifts in architectural style as paralleled by a general trend in middle - class city - dwellers ' exodus from the “ wilderness of bricks " in increasingly crowded cities to suburban " borderland ” regions such as the ...
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... describes Downing's friendships with and the importance of his aesthetic reforms to a group of “ Genteel Romantic " writers who created a popular antebellum literature of idealized rural domesticity . Along with Sedgwick , the group ...
... describes Downing's friendships with and the importance of his aesthetic reforms to a group of “ Genteel Romantic " writers who created a popular antebellum literature of idealized rural domesticity . Along with Sedgwick , the group ...
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