TY  - BOOK
AU  - Otter,Samuel
TI  - Melville's anatomies
SN  - 9780520918016
AV  - PS2388.B57 O88 1999eb
U1  - 813/.3 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Berkeley, Calif.
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Melville, Herman,
KW  - Human body in literature
KW  - Corps humain dans la litt�erature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - American
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anatomy
KW  - fast
KW  - American Literature
KW  - hilcc
KW  - English
KW  - Languages & Literatures
KW  - Eye
KW  - Heart
KW  - Literature
KW  - Retorica
KW  - gtt
KW  - Politieke ideologie
KW  - Letterkunde
KW  - Amerikaans
KW  - Corps humain
KW  - Dans la litt�erature
KW  - ram
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-354) and index; Losing face in Typee. Of cannibalism: eating the body in Cook, Krusenstern, and Porter ; Of tattooing: reading the body in Langsdorff and Melville -- Jumping out of one's skin in White-Jacket. The anatomical impulse: ship, state, and body ; Slaves: the scene of flogging in Douglass, Pennington, and Northup ; Sailors: the analogy with slavery in Leech, McNally, Browne, and Dana ; Flogged free: White-Jacket's emancipation ; Sailing on -- Getting inside heads in Moby-Dick. Middle-aged man with a skull: Samuel George ; Morton and the quest for cranial contents ; Dry bones: the laws of anatomy in antebellum ethnology ; Skin deep: the ethnological critiques of Douglass, Brown, and Apess ; A sight of sights to see: cetology and ethnology in Moby-Dick ; To look and to know -- Penetrating eyes in Pierre. American views: Natural features and national character ; The loving eye: Thomas Cole and the visual embrace ; The hungry eye: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the taste for scenery ; The dissolving eye: Susan Cooper and the persistence of vision ; Strange eye-fish with wings: Melville's clogged optics -- Inscribed hearts in Pierre. Sentiment American style: the heart on the page ; Men of feeling: Donald Grant Mitchell's treatises concerning the sentimental affections ; A little half-worn shoe: Fanny Fern's emotional investments ; Blood, ink, and tears: the strangling diastole and systole of Pierre
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