Melville & women / edited by Elizabeth Schultz and Haskell Springer.

Contributor Schultz, Elizabeth A.

Imprint:Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2006.

Descriptionviii, 287 p., 8 p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-270) and index.

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