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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Herman Melville and the American calling : fiction after Moby-Dick, 1851-1857 / by Spanos, William V.

Table of Contents: “…Melville's specter : an introduction -- Pierre's extraordinary emergency : Melville and the "voice of silence" -- Herman Melville's Israel Potter : reflections on a damaged life -- "Benito Cereno" and "Bartleby, the scrivener" : reflections on the American calling. …”
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Melville's other lives : bodies on trial in The piazza tales / by Sten, Christopher, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…"The piazza" and Melville's Sickroom -- "Bartleby, the scrivener" : the body (and soul) in pain -- "Casting a shadow" : representing race and trauma in "Benito cereno" -- Playing smart, playing dumb : performance in "The lightning-rod man" -- "The encantadas, or enchanted isles" : bodies as fragments -- Docile monsters and enslavement in "The bell-tower".…”
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Beside you in time : sense methods and queer sociabilities in the American 19th century / by Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Shake it off : the physiopolitics of Shaker dance, 1774-1856 -- The gift of constant escape : playing dead in African American literature, 1849-1900 -- Feeling historicisms : libidinal history in Twain and Hopkins -- The sense of unending : defective chronicity in "Bartleby, the scrivener" and "Melanctha" -- Sacra/mentality in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood.…”
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Beside You in Time : Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century / by Freeman, Elizabeth, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Shake it off : the physiopolitics of Shaker dance, 1774-1856 -- The gift of constant escape : playing dead in African American literature, 1849-1900 -- Feeling historicisms : libidinal history in Twain and Hopkins -- The sense of unending : defective chronicity in "Bartleby, the scrivener" and "Melanctha" -- Sacra/mentality in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood.…”
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Neither believer nor infidel : skepticism and faith in Melville's shorter fiction and poetry / by Cook, Jonathan A. 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Neither believer nor infidel: biographical considerations -- Biblical inversion and the ends of Christianity: "Bartleby, the Scrivener" -- Conversion, infatuation, resurrection: Christian salvation in "Cock-a-Doodle-Do!" …”
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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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Cross-examinations of law and literature : Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville / by Thomas, Brook

Table of Contents: “…Individuals, judges, property -- The pioneers; or the sources of American legal history : a critical tale -- The house of the seven gables : Hawthorne's legal story -- The house of the seven gables : Hawthorne's romance of art -- Wage and chattel slavery -- "Benito Cereno" : Melville's narrative of repression -- A sentimental journey : escape from bondage in Uncle Tom's cabin -- Exploitation at home and at sea -- "Bartleby, the scrivener" : fellow servants and free agents on Wall Street -- Contracts and confidence men -- Billy Budd and re-righting legal history -- Measured forms -- Ragged edges.…”

The Stoic strain in American literature : essays in honour of Marston LaFrance /

Table of Contents: “…--Stern, M.R. Towards Bartleby the scrivener.--Allen, G.W. Walt Whitman and Stoicism.…”
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The formal center in literature : explorations from Poe to the present / by Kopley, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- "Mournful and never-ending remembrance" in Edgar Allan Poe's The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym -- Retracing our steps in Edgar Allan Poe's "The man of the crowd" -- "Scrutinizing the parchment more closely": the form of "The gold-bug" and its relationship to that of the Dupin tales -- Form and reform in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Earth's holocaust" -- The circle and its center in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Chiasmus in Henry David Thoreau's Walden -- The mythological centers of Lewis Carroll's Alice books -- Table as text in James Joyce's "The dead" -- The structure of Sherwood Anderson's "Hands" -- The architecture of Ernest Hemingway's "The three-day blow" -- Balance in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese falcon -- Framing Caesar in Raymond Chandler's The big sleep -- The ridge of the domino in Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a train -- The "x in the air" in Joyce Carol Oates's "Where are you going, where have you been?" …”
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American short fiction : readings and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving ; Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe ; My kinsman, Major Molineux / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; Bartleby the scrivener / Herman Melville ; The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain ; The real thing / Henry James ; The blue hotel / Stephen Crane ; To build a fire / Jack London ; An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce ; Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson ; The killers / Ernest Hemingway ; A rose for Emily / William Faulkner ; Flowering Judas / Katherine Anne Porter ; Ways and means / Langston Hughes ; A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor ; The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud ; A & P / John Updike -- Part two, Matching stories for comparison and independent analysis. …”