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Toward a feminist reading of Herman Melville's stories about the material conditions of writing.(MLA 2007--Chicago)(Critical essay)

Publication: Leviathan
Publication Date: 01-JUN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1853) and "The Tartarus of Maids" (1855) both may be read as explorations of the gendered dimension of the job of the scrivener, that is, the copyist. In my reading, I suggest that these texts are informed by Herman Melville's considerations gender...

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...of--and anxieties about--his privilege(s) within his household.

During the 1840s and early 50s, while Melville was writing his novels and short stories, his sisters and wife did all the revising...

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