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November 20, 2007
Elizabeth Schultz, MA'62, PhD'67, and Haskell Springer, editors
Melville and Women, Kent State University Press, 2006.
The book: The 12 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 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.
The author: Elizabeth Schultz is the Chancellor's Club Teaching Professor in the English Department at the University of Kansas. A founding member of the Melville Society Cultural Project, Schultz is the author of "Unpainted to the Last: Moby-Dick and Twentieth-Century American Art," "Shoreline: Seasons at the Lake" and numerous essays on "Moby-Dick."
Posted by tobiaslw at November 20, 2007 11:54 AM