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Purchasing Power

Author(s): Peggy Kamuf
Contributor(s): Branka Arsić (Translator)
Subject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Theory of Literature, British Literature, American Literature
Published by: Centar za ženske studije & Centar za studije roda i politike, Fakultet političkih nauka, Beograd
Keywords: civil war; peace; purchasing power; love; other

Summary/Abstract: This analysis starts from a “fictional assumption” that if would be possible for Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville, although they never have met each other, to establish in the midst of the Civil War a virtual peace by writing, a peace based upon love, hospitality and gift. This assumption has been based upon a detailed analysis of Melville's “Bartleby. the Scrivener” and Emily Dickinson’s attitude towards writing.

  • Issue Year: 1999
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 18-36
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Serbian