Herman Melville: An IntroductionISBN: 978-1-4051-3157-5
Hardcover
248 pages
February 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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Texts and Abbreviations.
List of Illustrations.
Acknowledgments.
Preface.
Part I: Introduction.
1 Melville's Life.
2 "Agatha" and the Invention of Narrative.
Part II: Melville's Early Yarns.
3 "Making Literary Use of the Story": Typee and Omoo.
4 "A Regular Story Founded on Striking Incidents": Mardi, Redburn, and White-Jacket.
Part III: Writing New Gospel in Moby-Dick and Pierre.
5 "So Much of Pathos & So Much of Depth": Moby-Dick.
6 "All Tender Obligations": Pierre.
Part IV: Turning a New Leaf: Short Fiction, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man.
7 "A Leaf from Professional Experience": Short Fiction of the 1850s.
8 "Peculiarly Latitudinarian Notions": Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man.
Part V: Melville's Later Career.
9 "Fulness & Veins & Beauty": Battle-Pieces and Clarel.
10 "Different Considerations": Late Poetry.
11 "Instinct with Significance": Billy Budd.
Afterword: "Restoring to You Your Own Property": Owning Melville.
Appendix: "Agatha" Correspondence.
Bibliography.
Index
List of Illustrations.
Acknowledgments.
Preface.
Part I: Introduction.
1 Melville's Life.
2 "Agatha" and the Invention of Narrative.
Part II: Melville's Early Yarns.
3 "Making Literary Use of the Story": Typee and Omoo.
4 "A Regular Story Founded on Striking Incidents": Mardi, Redburn, and White-Jacket.
Part III: Writing New Gospel in Moby-Dick and Pierre.
5 "So Much of Pathos & So Much of Depth": Moby-Dick.
6 "All Tender Obligations": Pierre.
Part IV: Turning a New Leaf: Short Fiction, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man.
7 "A Leaf from Professional Experience": Short Fiction of the 1850s.
8 "Peculiarly Latitudinarian Notions": Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man.
Part V: Melville's Later Career.
9 "Fulness & Veins & Beauty": Battle-Pieces and Clarel.
10 "Different Considerations": Late Poetry.
11 "Instinct with Significance": Billy Budd.
Afterword: "Restoring to You Your Own Property": Owning Melville.
Appendix: "Agatha" Correspondence.
Bibliography.
Index
