How D. H. Lawrence read Herman Melville / by Hayes, Kevin J.

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"This mighty convulsion" : Whitman and Melville write the Civil War /

Table of Contents: “…Cook -- "Nearer to us in nature": the US South and Herman Melville's literary lost cause / Timothy Marr -- Melville's historical imagination in "the house-top" / Christopher Ohge -- Melville's reconstructions: the "moorish maid" in "Lee in the Capitol" / Brian Yothers -- Drum-taps and battle-pieces brought together / Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and the American Civil War poetry anthology / Ian Faith -- List of American Civil War poetry anthologies.…”
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The intimacy of paper in early and nineteenth-century American literature / by Senchyne, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Paper Publics and Material Textual Affiliations in American Print Culture -- Chapter 2: The Gender of Rag Paper in Anne Bradstreet and Lydia Sigourney -- Chapter 3: The Ineffable Socialities of Rags in Henry David Thoreau and Herman Melville -- Chapter 4: The Whiteness of the Page: Racial Legibility and Authenticity.…”
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Against the gallows : antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment / by Jones, Paul C., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Haunted by the gallows: Antebellum American literature and capital punishment -- The politics of poetry: The democratic review and anti-gallows verse in 1840s America -- The American Newgate novel: Antebellum crime fiction and anti- gallows sympathy -- Walt Whitman's anti-gallows writing: The appeal to Christian sympathy -- Women's anti-gallows writing: The sentimental strategy of E.D.E.N. Southworth -- Herman Melville's Billy Budd: The legacy of antebellum anti-gallows literature.…”
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Children of the raven and the whale : visions and revisions in American literature / by Hellman, Caroline Chamberlin, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald in Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin and Joseph O'Neill's Netherland -- Black Boys and White Whales: Ta-Nehisi Coates's Conversations with Herman Melville, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin -- Conclusion.…”
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