“In Honor, as in Limb, Unmarred”: Obsession with the “Whole” Body in Herman Melville’s Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
This article examines Herman Melville’s poetry collection Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) using theories and concepts from the sphere of disability studies. Mobilizing evidence from Melville’s letters as well as close readings of the poems, I argue that Melville presented a complicated r...
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Main Author: | Vanessa Meikle Schulman |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2023-09-01
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Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/20824 |
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