Gothic Melville (eBook)

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Dead, Blind Walls: Melville’s Gothicism
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Monika Elbert


ECOGOTHIC

‘“The Encantadas,” Enchantment, and Spaces Outside History’
Lisa West

‘“All dripping in tangles green”: The Ecogothic Vision of Melville’s John Marr and Other
Sailors with Some Sea Pieces’
Steve Bellomy

‘“If there be no God”: Materialism and the Naturalist Gothic in Clarel’
Elizabeth Adams


BODIES AS MATTER

‘Attack of the “Undoffable Incubus”: The Problem of Art as Body in Herman Melville’s Pierre’
Michael Schwartz

‘Those Who Eat and Those Who Get Eaten: Cannibalism and Capitalism in Melville’s Typee and “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids”’
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

‘”The Body Suspended”: The Gothic Corporeality in Billy Budd’
Christopher Love


DEMOCRACY AND TYRANNY

‘The Gothic and Radical Democracy in Melville’s Benito Cereno’
Eric Wolfe

‘The Confidence-Man and the Cynical Gothic’
Craig Stensrud

‘Ahab as Gothic Villain’
Jonathan Cook

‘Sunday in the Office with Bartleby: Gothic Naturalism on Wall Street’
Wendy Ryden


GENDER AND GOTHIC RELATIONSHIPS

‘Crossing ‘the Deadly Space Between’: Melville’s Queer Gothic’
Gale Temple

‘Gothic Vacancies: The Missing Women in Melville's Works’
Monika Elbert

‘“By their very contradictions they are made to correspond”: Symbolic Abjection and Gothic Convention in Herman Melville’s Pierre’
Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith