CFP: What's a Feminist to do with Melville (3/10/07; MLA '07)
What=92s a Feminist to Do with Melville?
Melville Society Session
MLA, Chicago, December 27-30, 2007
Feminist criticism contributes a stimulating, if still compact, =20
scholarship in the field of Melville studies. The past three decades =20=
of feminist study have not only revisited questions of Melville and =20
misogyny, but also renewed interest in his short fiction, poetry, and =20=
Pierre; opened up the significance of gendered figures in his texts; =20
reconsidered his career through new historical models of authorship; =20
and more.