An irreparable loss to literature : law and literature in Herman Melville's Bartleby the scrivener

Gyula Somogyi

Gyula Somogyi is Senior Assistant Professor at the Comparative Literature and Culture Department, Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Literary Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Miskolc, Hungary. His main areas of research and teaching are 19th and 20th century literature (especially Romanticisim and 19th century American fiction), literary and cultural theory (especially deconstruction, psychoanalysis, gender and trauma studies, law and literature, cultural memory), visual and popular culture, media studies. Email: sgyula@gmail.com