Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 9 of 9
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
American Shudders: Race, Representation, And Sodomy In Redburn, David Greven
American Shudders: Race, Representation, And Sodomy In Redburn, David Greven
Faculty Publications
Newer critical treatments of Redburn argue that its significance lies in its critique of antebellum slavery, most saliently in chapter 31, in which Wellingborough Redburn, the first-person narrator, offers an ekphrastic depiction of the Nelson Monument in Liverpool, England. This monument contains an especially significant detail: the four naked, chained male figures at the base of the pedestal. Redburn tells us that he can never look at their “swarthy limbs and manacles, without being involuntarily reminded of four African slaves in the market-place.” The abjection of the figures is significant for understanding not only issues of race and slavery but …
Manly Love And Its Discontents: Melville, Whitman, And The Dream Of American Brotherhood, David Greven
Manly Love And Its Discontents: Melville, Whitman, And The Dream Of American Brotherhood, David Greven
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Femininity And The Gothic Animal: Spofford And Bierce, Gender And Genre, David Greven
Femininity And The Gothic Animal: Spofford And Bierce, Gender And Genre, David Greven
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Poe's Mythologies: Transatlantic Nineteenth Century Hellenism As World Literature, David Greven
Poe's Mythologies: Transatlantic Nineteenth Century Hellenism As World Literature, David Greven
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Desire In Marble: Vision, Classical Antiquity, And Homoerotic Spectacle In Melville's Travel Writing, David Greven
Desire In Marble: Vision, Classical Antiquity, And Homoerotic Spectacle In Melville's Travel Writing, David Greven
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Masculinist Theory And Romantic Authorship, Or Hawthorne, Politics, Desire, David Greven
Masculinist Theory And Romantic Authorship, Or Hawthorne, Politics, Desire, David Greven
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
“The Whole Numerous Race Of The Melancholy Among Men”: Mourning, Hypocrisy, And Same-Sex Desire In Poe's Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym, David Greven
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
In A Pig's Eye: Masculinity, Mastery, And The Returned Gaze Of The Blithedale Romance, David Greven
In A Pig's Eye: Masculinity, Mastery, And The Returned Gaze Of The Blithedale Romance, David Greven
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Troubling Our Heads About Ichabod: "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow," Classic American Literature, And The Sexual Politics Of Homosocial Brotherhood, David Greven
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.