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Melvillean Parasites addresses an aspect of Herman Melville’s authorship largely overlooked by previous scholars: the abundance of narrators and characters in his writings in search of food—an aim they typically pursue through sponging off the people they encounter.Deploying the conceptual figure of the parasite as its primary analytical tool, the book interprets how the dream of a free meal plays out and is given literary form in Typee (1846), “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1853), “Jimmy Rose” (1855), and The Confidence-Man (1857). In so doing, Melvillean Parasites aims to explain how Melville’s engagement with ethico-political issues concerning nourishment, dependency upon others, hospitality, and responsibility toward strangers, evolved and changed over time. Compared to the tendency of dehumanizing the parasite found in many of his contemporaries, the book claims that what sets him apart, is his insight into the unavoidable parasitic tendencies of us all: Herman Melville—patron saint of the parasite.Melvillean Parasites is intended for scholars, students, and general readers with an interest in the concept of the parasite, as well as Herman Melville’s authorship, American literature, and 19th century studies in general.Anders M. Gullestad is Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen.

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- Parasitology (non-medical) --- Herman Melville, Michel Serres, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, food, sponging

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Blick ins BuchDer Kredit gilt gemeinhin als neutrale Transaktion, die dazu dient, ökonomische Akteure möglichst effizient und profitabel miteinander zu vernetzen. In der realistischen Erzählliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts zeichnet sich jedoch ein ganz anderes Bild ab: Kreditfiktionen von Autorinnen und Autoren wie Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, George Eliot, Gottfried Keller oder Herman Melville präsentieren den Kredit als volatile und ruinöse Fiktion, die soziale Reibungen und Konflikte erzeugt und die Realität selbst in ein verkäufliches Gut ummünzt. So kristallisiert sich in Texten des Realismus ein wildes Wissen über die ontologischen, epistemologischen und gesellschaftlichen Verwerfungen der Schuldenwirtschaft heraus.

Politische Ökonomie --- Theorien der Gabe --- Soziologie --- Wirtschaftsgeschichte --- Karl Marx --- Gustave Flaubert --- Honoré de Balzac --- Herman Melville --- Literaturtheorie --- Ökonomische Utopien --- Political Economy --- The Gift Economy --- Sociology --- History of Economics --- Literary Theory --- 1800-1899

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The meeting of members of different cultures, frequently conceptualized in abstract terms, always involves the meeting of human bodies. This volume brings together contributions by scholars of various disciplines that address physical aspects and effects of cultural encounters in historical and present-day settings. Bodies were and are not only markers of cultural identity and difference, endlessly inscribed and represented as the 'body politic' or 'the exotic other'; as battlegrounds of cross-cultural signification and identification bodies are also potential agents of change. While some essays address the elusiveness of the 'real' or material body, forever lost behind a veil of textual and visual representation, others analyze the performative effect of such representations - their function of disciplining colonized bodies and subjects by integrating them into Western systems of cultural signification and scientific classification. Yet, as the volume also shows, formerly colonized people, far from subjecting themselves completely to Western discourses of physical discipline, retain traditional body practices - whether in food culture, religious ritual, or musical performances. Such local reinscriptions escape the grip of Western culture and transform the global semantics of the body. This impressive publication [...] is part of a valuable series of intellectual explorations in negotiating the intercultural journey. - Bruce Harding in: Jahrbuch für Europäische Überseegeschichte, 13/2013

Bodies and Cultural Encounters --- Herman Melville --- History of Tattooing --- Same-Sex Sexuality and the Colonial Archive --- Sexualities in the French Foreign Legion --- African Pentecostal-type Christianity --- German Ethnic Shows --- Ethnographic Dioramas --- Ethnological Museums --- Bali --- Guatemala --- Oaxaca --- Andean --- New England --- Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung