Herman Melville. Peculiarities of writing style in his novel Moby Dick Plan: Introduction 3

Conclusion
Melville only gradually attracted the pioneering scholars of women's studies, gender, and sexuality in the 1970s and 1980s. Though some held that he hardly portrayed women at all, others saw the few women in his works as traditional figures representing, or even attacking, nineteenth-century gentility, sentimentality, and conventional morality. Melville's preference for sea-going tales that involved almost only males has been of interest to scholars in men's studies and especially gay and queer studies.^[197] Melville was remarkably open in his exploration of sexuality of all sorts. Alvin Sandberg said that the short story "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids" offers "an exploration of impotency, a portrayal of a man retreating to an all-male childhood to avoid confrontation with sexual manhood," from which the narrator engages in "congenial" digressions in heterogeneity.^[198] In line with this view, Warren Rosenberg argues the homosocial "Paradise of Bachelors" is "blind to what is real and painful in the world, and thus are [sic] superficial and sterile".^[199]
David Harley Serlin observes in the second half of Melville's diptych, "The Tartarus of Maids", the narrator gives voice to the oppressed women he observes:
As other scholars have noted, the "slave" image here has two clear connotations. One describes the exploitation of the women's physical labor, and the other describes the exploitation of the women's reproductive organs. Of course, as models of women's oppression, the two are clearly intertwined.
List of literature

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2. 
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6. 
   Branch, Watson, ed. (1974). Melville: The Critical Heritage. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul. ISBN 9780710077745. OCLC 755172141.
   
7. 
   Bowen, Merlin (1960). The Long Encounter: Self and Experience in the Writings of Herman Melville. Phoneix books. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
   
8. 
   Buell, Lawrence (1998). "Melville The Poet". In Levine, Robert (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Melville. Cambridge University Press. Archived from the original on May 12, 2016.
   
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    Delbanco, Andrew (2005). Melville, His World and Work. New York: Knopf. ISBN 978-0-375-40314-9. OCLC 845847813.
    

1^ Bowen, Merlin (1960). The Long Encounter: Self and Experience in the Writings of Herman Melville. Phoneix books. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2^ Chapin, Henry (1922). Introduction. John Marr & Other Poems. By Melville, Herman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

3^ Delbanco, Andrew (2005). Melville, His World and Work. New York: Knopf. ISBN 978-0-375-40314-9. OCLC 845847813.