Herman Melville : the contemporary reviews /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Typee -- Omoo -- Mardi -- Redburn -- White-jacket -- Moby-dick -- Pierre -- Israel Potter -- The Piazza Tales -- The confidence-man -- Battle-pieces and aspects of the war -- Clarel -- John Marr and other sailors with some sea-pieces -- Billy Budd.…”
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Herman Melville : an introduction / by Kelley, Wyn

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Melville's Life -- "Agatha" and the Invention of Narrative -- Melville's Early Yarns -- "Making Literary Use of the Story": Typee and Omoo -- "A Regular Story Founded on Striking Incidents": Mardi, Redburn, and White-Jacket -- Writing New Gospel in Moby-Dick and Pierre -- "So Much of Pathos & So Much of Depth": Moby-Dick -- "All Tender Obligations": Pierre -- Turning a New Leaf: Short Fiction, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man -- "A Leaf from Professional Experience": Short Fiction of the 1850s -- "Peculiarly Latitudinarian Notions": Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man -- Melville's Later Career -- "Fulness & Veins & Beauty": Battle-Pieces and Clarel -- "Different Considerations": Late Poetry -- "Instinct with Significance": Billy Budd -- Afterword: "Restoring to You Your Own Property": Owning Melville -- Appendix: "Agatha" Correspondence.…”

The Cambridge introduction to Herman Melville / by Hayes, Kevin J.

Table of Contents: “…Writings -- The faces of Typee -- Omoo : the rover as flaneur -- Becoming a great writer : Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket -- Confronting Moby-Dick -- Pierre : the making of a tragic hero -- Private letters -- Rewriting history : Israel Potter and "Benito Cereno" -- Modern man : "The lightning-rod man," The confidence-man, "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Battle-pieces : the voices of war -- Clarel, and American epic -- The return to prose : Burgundy Club sketches, John Marr -- Billy Budd : visions and revisions -- 4. …”
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The Cambridge introduction to Herman Melville / by Hayes, Kevin J.

Table of Contents: “…Writings -- The faces of Typee -- Omoo : the rover as flaneur -- Becoming a great writer : Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket -- Confronting Moby-Dick -- Pierre : the making of a tragic hero -- Private letters -- Rewriting history : Israel Potter and "Benito Cereno" -- Modern man : "The lightning-rod man," The confidence-man, "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Battle-pieces : the voices of war -- Clarel, and American epic -- The return to prose : Burgundy Club sketches, John Marr -- Billy Budd : visions and revisions -- 4. …”
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Hawthorne and Melville : writing a relationship /

Table of Contents: “…Argersinger, Leland S. Person -- Mr. 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. …”

Herman Melville : an introduction / by Kelley, Wyn

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Melville's Life -- Agatha and the Invention of Narrative -- Melville's Early Yarns -- Making Literary Use of the Story: Typee and Omoo -- A Regular Story Founded on Striking Incidents: Mardi, Redburn, and White-Jacket -- Writing New Gospel in Moby-Dick and Pierre -- So Much of Pathos & So Much of Depth: Moby-Dick -- All Tender Obligations: Pierre -- Turning a New Leaf: Short Fiction, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man -- A Leaf from Professional Experience: Short Fiction of the 1850s -- Peculiarly Latitudinarian Notions: Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man -- Melville's Later Career -- Fulness & Veins & Beauty: Battle-Pieces and Clarel -- Different Considerations: Late Poetry -- Instinct with Significance: Billy Budd -- Afterword: Restoring to You Your Own Property: Owning Melville -- Appendix: Agatha Correspondence.…”
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A Political Companion to Herman Melville /

Table of Contents: “…Melville's anthropolitics at the dawn of Pacific imperialism / Kennan Ferguson -- "The end was in the beginning": Melville, Ellison, and the Democratic death of progress in Typee and Omoo / Sophia Mihic -- Chasing the whale: Moby-Dick as political theory / George Shulman -- Ahab, American / Susan McWilliams -- "Mighty lordships in the heart of the republic": the anti-rent subtext to Pierre / Roger W. …”
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How D. H. Lawrence read Herman Melville / by Hayes, Kevin J.

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

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Herman Melville's whaling years / by Heflin, Wilson L. 1913-

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