Melville′s Other Lives – Bodies on Trial in The Piazza Tales Sten Paperback

Melville's Other LivesBodies on Trial in the Piazza Tales\nAuthor(s): Christopher Sten\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Virginia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Virginia Press\nISBN-13: 9780813945446, 978-0813945446\nSynopsis\nMelvilles Other Lives is the first book-length study on The Piazza TalesHerman Melvilles only authorized collection of short fiction published in his lifetimeand the first book to explore the rich and varied subject of embodiment in any published collection of Melvilles stories. As Christopher Sten shows, all of the stories in The Piazza Tales present encounters between established white male figures: a writer, a lawyer, a ship captain, a homeowner, an architect, a world traveler, and characters who are outsiders, minorities, outcasts, or \""others\"": a seamstress, an office drudge, enslaved Africans, a traveling salesman, island castaways, the poor. In each, Melville concentrates on the trials of the human body, its pain and trauma, its.