Discover: Paradise of Bachelors
By Stephen M. Deusner, eMusic Contributor
In April 1855, Harper's New Monthly Magazine published a curious short story by Herman Melville titled "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids." It's one of his more experimental pieces, a narrative diptych set among an enclave of attorneys in London (the bachelors) and a regimen of female mill workers in Massachusetts (the maids). It's loosely about industrialization linking disparate worlds on both sides of the Atlantic. Writes Melville: "Sweet are the oases… more »













