List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Melville's Life
Introduction
ROBERT S. LEVINE
1 "Race" in Typee and White-Jacket
SAMUEL OTTER
2 The Tambourine in Glory: African Culture and Melville's Art
STERLING STUCKEY
3 Moby-Dick as Revolution
JOHN BRYANT
4 Pierre's Domestic Ambiguities
WYN KELLEY
5 "A!": Unreadability in The Confidence-Man
ELIZABETH RENKER
6 Melville the Poet
LAWRENCE BUELL
7 Melville's Traveling God
JENNY FRANCHOT
8 Melville and Sexuality
ROBERT K. MARTIN
9 Melville, Labor, and the Discourses of Reception
CINDY WEINSTEIN
10 "Bewildering Intertanglement": Melville's Engagement with
British Culture
PAUL GILES
11 Melville and the Avenging Dream
ROBERT MILDER
Afterword
ANDREW DELBANCO
Selected Bibliography
Index
