... patriarchy/patriarchal shelter Herman Melville market revolution Lowell (Massachusetts) factory women industrialization The monk-giver of gratuitous ghostly counsel now counsels for a fee. . . . Struck by Time’s enchanter’s Wand, the Templar is to-day a Lawyer. —Herman Melville, “The Paradise...

... the figure of the patriarch is “created through three juridical forms: sovereignty, property, and personhood” (21) cannot name the concept in its title. Vexy Thing as a title is itself a vexing thing: frustrating in its imprecision. Yet, Perry’s argument about what she calls “the architecture of patriarchy...

.... Certainly, the patrician values of patriarchy and citizenship were deeply ingrained in the poet and are on display every- where in the poems. Longfellow was also, in theory at least (for he seldom revised his poetry to any...

...- bal nature undermine the supposedly happy ending of the novel and trouble the patriarchal authority of its hero.31 This conflict over the benefits of the marriage is ultimately linked to Evans’s sympathetic pairing of white women and black slaves. The sentimental agenda of the novel is fundamentally...

... to the Christian community (The Scarlet Letter,vol.1oftheCentenary Edi- tion, 98, 99, 183). And though her freethinking portends the eclipse of patriarchy and a patriarchal Christianity, it does not, I think, portend...

..., which I’d like to challenge for more than one reason. First, Margaret’s denunciation of the aunts as “workers” reveals her own naiveté rather than their oppression. Margaret is the sheltered new bride, whereas Maria and Hannah—like Putnam and Wynne herself—are the independent stewards of their own...