On the slain collegians : selections from the poems of Herman Melville / by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

False starts : the rhetoric of failure and the making of American modernism / by Ball, David M., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…The prestige of failure : modern sentiments in Susan Warner and Herman Melville --…”

False starts : the rhetoric of failure and the making of American modernism / by Ball, David M., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…The prestige of failure : modern sentiments in Susan Warner and Herman Melville --…”
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More contemporary Americans, by Boynton, Percy Holmes, 1875-1946

Table of Contents: “…Winds of criticism.--Herman Melville.--Lafcadio Hearn.--Ambrose Bierce.--The college insurgents.…”

The art of the reprint : nineteenth-century novels in twentieth-century editions / by Parry, Rosalind, 1988-

Table of Contents: “…Clare Leighton & Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native -- Rockwell Kent & Herman Melville's Moby Dick -- Fritz Eichenberg & Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre -- Joan Hassall & The Complete Novels of Jane Austen -- Coda: The Home Library…”
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American hungers : the problem of poverty in U.S. literature, 1840-1945 / by Jones, Gavin Roger, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; INTRODUCTION: The Problem of Poverty in Literary Criticism; ONE: Beggaring Description: Herman Melville and Antebellum Poverty Discourse; TWO: Being Poor in the Progressive Era: Dreiser and Wharton on the Pauper Problem; THREE: The Depression in Black and White: Agee, Wright, and the Aesthetics of Damage; CONCLUSION; Notes; Works Cited; Index.…”
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The expense of greatness, by Blackmur, R. P. 1904-1965

Table of Contents: “…--Emily Dickinson: notes on prejudice and fact.--The craft of Herman Melville: a putative statement.--A note of Yvor Winters.…”

Revision as resistance in twentieth-century American drama / by Malburne-Wade, Meredith M., 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Confession and crime, confession as crime: Williams' Tituba's children and Miller's The crucible -- Confrontation and challenge: Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie as response to the murder of Emmett Till -- Condemnation as redress: Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, Richard Wright's Man, God ain't like that, and Robert Lowell's Benito Cereno -- Celebration of family as a means of difference and hope: Hansberry's A raisin in the sun and Odets' Awake and sing! …”

Excavating Exodus : biblical typology and racial solidarity in African American literature / by Cohen, J. Laurence

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Moses in African American religious culture -- Mosaic subjectivity in David Walker and Frances Harper -- Typological plasticity in Martin Delany, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Moses vs. the masses : Alain Locke, Aesthetic Uplift, and Zora Neale Hurston -- The end of Exodus? …”
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Crimes of art + terror / by Lentricchia, Frank

Table of Contents: “…Groundzeroland -- Literary terrorists: William Wordsworth, The Unabomber, Don DeLillo -- Solitary savages: Jack Henry Abbott/Norman Mailer, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Martin Scorsese, Bret Easton Ellis -- Crossing the line: Joseph Conrad, John Cassavetes, Thomas Mann, Francis Ford Coppola -- Rough trade: Jean Genet, Frederick Douglass -- Deliberate orphans: Herman Melville, J.M. Synge, Thomas Bernhard -- The last maniacal folly of Heinrich von Kleist (a fiction) -- Coda.…”
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Whitman, Melville, Crane, and the labors of American poetry : against vocation / by Riley, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Leaves of Grass and Real Estate -- Whitman and the Transformations of Labor - Part II: Herman Melville, Deputy Customs Inspector. Moby-Dick and the Shadows of the Poet -- Billy Budd and Melville's Retirement -- Part III: Hart Crane, Junior Copywriter. …”

American hungers : the problem of poverty in U.S. literature, 1840-1945 / by Jones, Gavin Roger, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The Problem of Poverty in Literary Criticism -- Beggaring Description: Herman Melville and Antebellum Poverty Discourse -- Paradigms of Poverty and Pauperism -- Literary Uses and Abuses of Poverty -- The Ambivalence of Thoreau and Davis -- Redburn and Israel Potter: Transatlantic Counterparts -- Melville's Sketches of the Mid-1850s -- Poor Pierre -- Problems of Need in The Confidence-Man -- Being Poor in the Progressive Era: Dreiser and Wharton on the Pauper Problem -- Writing Poverty -- The Persistence of Pauperism -- What's the Matter with Hurstwood? …”

War no more : the antiwar impulse in American literature, 1861-1914 / by Wachtell, Cynthia, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Writing a battle: three versions of Chickamauga -- The Civil War in popular poetry: "God and right" -- Sir Walter Scott's legacy and the romance of the Civil War -- Herman Melville: "Battle no more shall be" -- John William De Forest: "The whole truth about war and battle" -- Walt Whitman: "That hell unpent" -- The Civil War rewritten in the postwar decades -- Part 2. …”

Radical legacies : twentieth century public intellectuals in the United States / by Redding, Arthur F., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…: globalism and democratic pedagogy in Henry James and Henry Adams -- World War I and the origins of the national security state: Mary Antin, Randolph Bourne, and Emma Goldman -- Mary McCarthy's swizzle sticks: food, drink, and consumerism in the American depression -- Herman Melville's Cold War: re-reading C.L.R. James's mariners, renegades, and castaways -- Turning poetry into bread: Langston Hughes, travel-writing, and the professionalization of African-American literary production -- Legacies of the new left: Paul Goodman, C. …”
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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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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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The formal center in literature : explorations from Poe to the present / by Kopley, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- "Mournful and never-ending remembrance" in Edgar Allan Poe's The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym -- Retracing our steps in Edgar Allan Poe's "The man of the crowd" -- "Scrutinizing the parchment more closely": the form of "The gold-bug" and its relationship to that of the Dupin tales -- Form and reform in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Earth's holocaust" -- The circle and its center in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Chiasmus in Henry David Thoreau's Walden -- The mythological centers of Lewis Carroll's Alice books -- Table as text in James Joyce's "The dead" -- The structure of Sherwood Anderson's "Hands" -- The architecture of Ernest Hemingway's "The three-day blow" -- Balance in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese falcon -- Framing Caesar in Raymond Chandler's The big sleep -- The ridge of the domino in Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a train -- The "x in the air" in Joyce Carol Oates's "Where are you going, where have you been?" …”
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U.S.-Middle East historical encounters : a critical survey /

Table of Contents: “…Foster -- American Palestine : Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and the Holy Land in the nineteenth-century American Imagination / Hilton Obenzinger -- "Drying up the Euphrates" : Muslims, Millennialism, and Early American missionary enterprise / Timothy Marr -- Missionaries, Peasants, and the protection problem : negotiating Coptic reform in nineteenth-century Egypt / Paul D. …”
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Literary executions : capital punishment and American culture, 1820-1925 / by Barton, John Cyril

A critical gaze from the old world : transatlantic perspectives on American studies /

Table of Contents: “…Goodness, (Human) Animals, Dominion, and the Moral Imagination: Reading Herman Melville with Toni Morrison / Rodrigo Andres -- On Human Consciouness and Posthuman Slavery: Representations of The Living Deal in T.S. …”