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A Companion to Herman Melville
Wyn Kelley (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-2231-3
Hardcover
608 pages
October 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Description
  • Table of Contents
  • Author Information
  • Hallmark Features
  • Reviews
List of Illustrations.

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgements.

Texts and Abbreviations.

Preface (Wyn Kelley).

Part I: Travels.

1. A Traveling Life (Laurie Robertson-Lorant).

2. Cosmopolitanism and Traveling Culture (Peter Gibian).

3. Melville's World Readers (A. Robert Lee).

4. Global Melville (Paul Lyons).

Part II: Geographies.

5. Science and the Earth (Bruce A. Harvey).

6. Ships, Whaling, and the Sea (Mary K. Bercaw Edwards).

7. Pacific Paradises (Alex Calder).

8. Atlantic Trade (Hester Blum).

9. Ancient Lands (Basem L. Ra'ad).

Part III: Nations.

10. Democracy and its Discontents (Dennis Berthold).

11. Urbanization, Class Struggle, and Reform (Carol Colatrella).

12. Wicked Books: Melville and Religion (Hilton Obenzinger).

13. Pierre's Bad Associations: Public Life in the Institutional Nation (Christopher Castiglia).

14. Melville, Slavery, and the American Dilemma (John Stauffer).

15. Gender and Sexuality (Leland S. Person).

Part IV: Libraries.

16. The Legacy of Britain (Robin Grey).

17. Romantic Philosophy, Transcendentalism, and Nature (Rechela Permenter).

18. Literature of Exploration and the Sea (R.D. Madison).

19. Death and Literature: Melville and the Epitaph (Edgar A. Dryden).

20. The Company of Women Authors (Charlene Avallone).

21. Hawthorne and Race (Ellen Weinauer).

22. "Unlike Things Must Meet and Mate": Melville and the Visual Arts (Robert K. Wallace).

Part V: Texts.

23. The Motive for Metaphor: Type, Omoo, and Mardi (Geoffrey Sanborn).

24. Artist at Work: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and Pierre Cindy Weinstein).

25. The Language of Moby-Dick: "Read It If You Can" (Maurice S. Lee).

26. Threading the Labyrinth: Moby-Dick as Hybrid Epic (Christopher Sten).

27. The Female Subject in Pierre and The Piazza Tales (Caroline Levander).

28. Narrative Shock in "Bartleby, the Scrivener, " "The Paradise of Bacherlors and the Tartars of Maids," and "Benito Cereno" (Marvin Fisher).

29. Fluid Identity in Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man (Gale Temple).

30. How Clarel Works (Samuel Otter).

31. Melville the Realist Poet (Elizabeth Renker).

32. Melville's Transhistorical Voice: Billy Budd, Sailor and the Fragmentation of Forms (John Wenke).

Part VI: Meenings.

33. The Melville Revival (Sanford E. Marovitz).

34. Creating Icons: Melville in Visual Media and Popular Culture (Elizabeth Schultz).

35. The Melville Text (John Bryant).

Index.

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