Folder 177: Contents from expandable file, Folder 3 of 4 , 1953-1990
Scope and Contents
Various copies of essays and chapters from books on critical studies along with class notes from Melville Senior Seminar:
Article; “Chapter 5, The Tears and Trials of Domesticity: Women’s Fiction in the 1850s” by Mary R Ryan from The Empire of the Mother: American Writing About Domesticity, 1830-1860, Birmingham, New York, Routledge, 1985, 115
Article; “Chapter 2, Tying the Maternal Knot” by Mary R Ryan from The Empire of the Mother: American Writing About Domesticity, 1830-1860, Birmingham, New York, Routledge, 1982, 45
See folder 178 for another copy of this article
Article; “Melville’s Parable of the Walls” by Leo Marx from Sewanee Review, 61 (October 1953), 602
Article; “Bartleby, Melville’s Circumscribed Scrivener” by Marvin Fisher from Southern Review, X 1 (Winter 1974), 59
Article; “That Hive of Subtlety: Benito Cereno and the Liberal Hero” by James H Kavanagh from Ideology and Classic American Literature, Sacvan Bercovitvch and Myra Jehlen, eds, University of Cambridge Press, 1986, 352
Article; “Melville, Delany and New World Slavery” by Eric Sundquist from To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature, Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1993, 135
Article; “That Hive of Subtlety: Benito Cereno and the Liberal Hero” by James H Kavanagh from Ideology and Classic American Literature, second copy
Excerpt from “The New ‘Family Romance’” by Jon Schiller from Triquarterly 52, 1981
See folder 178 for another copy of this article
Article; “Three Ideologies of Manhood, Four Narratives of Humiliation” by David Leveranez from Manhood and the American Renaissance, New York, Cornell University Press, 1989, 72
Article; “Matthew’s Mosses? Fair Papers and Foul: A Note on the Northwestern-Newberry Edition of Melville’s ‘Hawthorne and his Mosses’” by P Marc Bousquet from New England Quarterly, 67 4, 622
Article; noted at bottom by Pfeil: “From Carolyn Porter, ‘How to Make Double-Talk speak’ in [Secvan] Bercovitch and [Myra] Jehlen, eds.
Ideology and American Literature”
Pfeil meant: Ideology and Classic American Literature, University of Cambridge Press, 1986; note: this essay does not appear in the contents for this book
Porter’s essay “Call me Ismael, or How to make Double-Talk Speak” appears in New Essays on Moby Dick by Richard H Birdhead, ed, University of Cambridge Press, 1987, 73
Article; “Chapter 6, Incomparable America” by Leo Bersani from The Culture of Redemption, Boston, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1990
Article; “Melville’s Economy of Language” by Paul Royster from Ideology and Classic American Literature, Secvan Bercovitch and Myra Jehlen, eds, University of Cambridge Press, 1986, 313
For more notes on Melville, see folders 175, 176, 178, 267
Dates
- Creation: 1953-1990
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open to the public and must be used in the John M.K. Davis Reading Room of the Watkinson Library, Trinity College Library, Hartford, Connecticut. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws when using this collection.
Extent
From the Collection: 23.5 Cubic Feet (23 records center cartons with 475 folders, and one flat box of oversized materials (box 24)) ; 1 box (16.25 in. x 13 in. x 10.5 in.) equals 1 cubic foot ("cubic foot" defined in SAA Dictionary) 1 flat box (2.5"H x 17"W x 20.75"D) equals .51 cubic feet (as defined by UNLV Archives Calculator)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
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