Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Notes on Contributors xii
Acknowledgments xx
Texts and Abbreviations xxi
Preface xxiiiWyn Kelley
Part I Travels 1
1 A Traveling Life Laurie Robertson-Lorant 3
2 Cosmopolitanism and Traveling Culture Peter Gibian 19
3 Melville’s World Readers A. Robert Lee 35
4 Global Melville Paul Lyons 52
Part II Geographies 69
5 Science and the Earth Bruce A. Harvey 71
6 Ships, Whaling, and the Sea Mary K. Bercaw Edwards 83
7 Pacific Paradises Alex Calder 98
8 Atlantic Trade Hester Blum 113
9 Ancient Lands Basem L. Ra’ad 129
Part III Nations 147
10 Democracy and its Discontents Dennis Berthold 149
11 Urbanization, Class Struggle, and Reform Carol Colatrella 165
12 Wicked Books: Melville and Religion Hilton Obenzinger 181
13 Pierre’s Bad Associations: Public Life in the Institutional Nation Christopher Castiglia 197
14 Melville, Slavery, and the American Dilemma John Stauffer 214
15 Gender and Sexuality Leland S. Person 231
Part IV Libraries 247
16 The Legacy of Britain Robin Grey 249
17 Romantic Philosophy, Transcendentalism, and Nature Rachela Permenter 266
18 Literature of Exploration and the Sea R. D. Madison 282
19 Death and Literature: Melville and the Epitaph Edgar A. Dryden 299
20 The Company of Women Authors Charlene Avallone 313
21 Hawthorne and Race Ellen Weinauer 327
22 “Unlike Things Must Meet and Mate”: Melville and the Visual Arts Robert K. Wallace 342
Part V Texts 363
23 The Motive for Metaphor: Typee, Omoo, and Mardi Geoffrey Sanborn 365
24 Artist at Work: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and Pierre Cindy Weinstein 378
25 The Language of Moby-Dick: “Read It If You Can” Maurice S. Lee 393
26 Threading the Labyrinth: Moby-Dick as Hybrid Epic Christopher Sten 408
27 The Female Subject in Pierre and The Piazza Tales Caroline Levander 423
28 Narrative Shock in “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,” and “Benito Cereno” Marvin Fisher 435
29 Fluid Identity in Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man Gale Temple 451
30 How Clarel Works Samuel Otter 467
31 Melville the Realist Poet Elizabeth Renker 482
32 Melville’s Transhistorical Voice: Billy Budd, Sailor and the Fragmentation of Forms John Wenke 497
Part VI Meanings 513
33 The Melville Revival Sanford E. Marovitz 515
34 Creating Icons: Melville in Visual Media and Popular Culture Elizabeth Schultz 532
35 The Melville Text John Bryant 553
Index 567