Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Benito Cereno, & Bartleby the scrivener /

Subjects: “…Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Bartleby, the scrivener.…”
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Male sexuality under surveillance : the office in American literature / by Thompson, Graham, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The rhetoric of the office in Melville's "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- The business of sexuality in The rise of Silas Lapham -- The businessman and the fairy child in Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt -- From Babbittry to Gray flannel via tropical incoporation -- Sloan Wilson's Gray flannel man in the queer organization -- Fear, paranoia, and self-pity in Joseph Heller's Something happened -- Shoelaces, social energy, and sexuality in Nicholson Baker's The mezzanine and The fermata -- Microserfs, modern migration, and the architecture of the 1990s.…”
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The war on words : slavery, race, and free speech in American literature / by Gilmore, Michael T.

Table of Contents: “…: Billy Budd in the crucible of Reconstruction -- Intertext: "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Postbellum. Tourgée: margin and center -- James and the monotone of reunion -- Was Twain black? …”
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