Melville & WomenElizabeth A. Schultz, Haskell S. Springer Kent State University Press, 2006 - 287 pàgines 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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... beauty : “ If the devout and exemplary Mussulman who dying fast in the faith of his Prophet , anticipates reclining on beds of roses , gloriously drunk through all the ages of eternity , is to be waited on by Houris such as these : waft ...
... beauty : “ If the devout and exemplary Mussulman who dying fast in the faith of his Prophet , anticipates reclining on beds of roses , gloriously drunk through all the ages of eternity , is to be waited on by Houris such as these : waft ...
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... beauty often brought with it the redolence of heavenly paradise that he conveyed through the vehicle of his orientalist imagination . Melville consistently fleshed out his subversive vision of an Eastern heaven with references to the ...
... beauty often brought with it the redolence of heavenly paradise that he conveyed through the vehicle of his orientalist imagination . Melville consistently fleshed out his subversive vision of an Eastern heaven with references to the ...
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... beauty is more essence than substance , and Taji's progressive descriptions of her emphasize her angelic insubstantiality as houri and peri . She exemplifies Mohja Kohf's description of the romantic paradigm of the Muslim woman as “ an ...
... beauty is more essence than substance , and Taji's progressive descriptions of her emphasize her angelic insubstantiality as houri and peri . She exemplifies Mohja Kohf's description of the romantic paradigm of the Muslim woman as “ an ...
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Melville Writing WomenWomen Writing Melville | 3 |
Women Reading MelvilleMelville Reading Women | 41 |
Melville Reading Sedgwick | 60 |
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