Gothic Melville

Notes on Contributors Introduction: Dead, Blind Walls: Melville’s Gothicism Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Monika Elbert ECOGOTHIC ‘“The Encantadas,” Enchantment, and Spaces Outside History’ Lisa West ‘“All dripping in tangles green”: The Ecogothic Vision of Melville’s John Marr and Other Sailors with Some Sea Pieces’ Steve Bellomy ‘“If there be no God”: Materialism and the Naturalist Gothic in Clarel’ Elizabeth Adams BODIES AS MATTER ‘Attack of the “Undoffable Incubus”: The Problem of Art as Body in Herman Melville’s Pierre’ Michael Schwartz ‘Those Who Eat and Those Who Get Eaten: Cannibalism and Capitalism in Melville’s Typee and “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids”’ Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ‘”The Body Suspended”: The Gothic Corporeality in Billy Budd’ Christopher Love DEMOCRACY AND TYRANNY ‘The Gothic and Radical Democracy in Melville’s Benito Cereno’ Eric Wolfe ‘The Confidence-Man and the Cynical Gothic’ Craig Stensrud ‘Ahab as Gothic Villain’ Jonathan Cook ‘Sunday in the Office with Bartleby: Gothic Naturalism on Wall Street’ Wendy Ryden GENDER AND GOTHIC RELATIONSHIPS ‘Crossing ‘the Deadly Space Between’: Melville’s Queer Gothic’ Gale Temple ‘Gothic Vacancies: The Missing Women in Melville's Works’ Monika Elbert ‘“By their very contradictions they are made to correspond”: Symbolic Abjection and Gothic Convention in Herman Melville’s Pierre’ Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith