The corporeal self : allegories of the body in Melville and Hawthorne / by Cameron, Sharon

Subjects: “…Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Moby Dick.…”

Hawthorne and Melville : writing a relationship /

Table of Contents: “…Omoo and the Hawthornes: the biographical background / Laurie Robertson-Lorant -- Hawthorne and Melville; or, the ambiguities / Brenda Wineapple -- "The ugly Socrates": Melville, Hawthorne, and the varieties of homoerotic experience / Robert Milder -- "Ineffable socialities": Melville, Hawthorne, and masculine ambivalence in the antebellum marketplace / Gale Temple -- Italy, the Civil War, and the politics of friendship / Dennis Berthold -- Letters on foolscap / Wyn Kelley -- Hawthorne and Melville in the shoals: "Agatha," the trials of authorship, and the dream of collaboration / Wyn Kelley -- "Shanties of chapters and essays": rewriting Moby-Dick / Robert Sattelmeyer -- Genealogical fictions: race in the house of the seven gables and Pierre / Robert S. …”