Herman Melville and the politics of the inhuman / by Jonik, Michael, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Melville's inhumanities -- The constituents of a chaos: character, materiality and ethopolitics in Moby-Dick -- A geology of murmurs: Pierre's inhuman transformations -- Outlandish beings, outlandish politics: the Encantadas, or enchanted isles -- Misanthropology: commonality and its discontents in The confidence-man -- Where wild rocks are set: character and the space of Clarel -- Form, relation, and dissolution in Melville's later poetry.…”
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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.…”

Melville's philosophies /

Table of Contents: “…Science, Philosophy, and Aesthetics in "The Apple-Tree Table" / Maurice S. Lee -- 4. Clarel, Doubt, Delay / Paul Hurh -- PART TWO: LOVE STORIES -- 5. …”

Exiled royalties : Melville and the life we imagine / by Milder, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Melville and Polynesia -- The broken circle: Melville and (post- )romanticism -- The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (1): Melville's metaphysics of democracy: "Hawthorne and his mosses" -- The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (2): Ishmael's grand erections -- Exiled royalties -- "The ugly Socrates": Melville, Hawthorne, and the varieties of Homoerotic experience -- An arch between two lives: Melville and the Mediterranean, 1856-1857 -- Uncivil wars -- Unworldly yearners: agnostic spirituality in Clarel -- Alms for oblivion.…”
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Tales, poems, and other writings / by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

Table of Contents: “…Statues in Rome ; Poems by Herman Melville -- From Battle-pieces. Supplement -- From Clarel: a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land -- Prose & poem: John Marr, and others. …”

After the whale : Melville in the wake of Moby-Dick / by Davis, Clark

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Moby-Dick and after -- Moby-Dick and the divided body -- Language and the ascetic body in Pierre and "Bartleby" -- Israel potter and the search for the hearth -- Part II: The limits of form -- Toward deception: the short fiction and the failing body -- Inverted worlds: "Benito Cereno" and The confidence-man -- Part III: Reshaping the lost debate -- The fissure in the hearth: Battle pieces -- Clarel and the search for divine body -- A question of distance: the late poetry -- Part IV: An open ending -- Billy Budd and the touch of a god.…”
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Melville and aesthetics /

Table of Contents: “…Levine -- Theatricality, strangeness, and the aesthetics of plurality in The confidence-man / Jennifer Greiman -- Battle music: Melville and the forms of war / Peter Coviello -- Melville's song of songs: Clarel as aesthetic pilgrimage / Ilana Pardes.…”

Herman Melville : stargazer / by Zimmerman, Brett, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Uranic Muse: Melville's Knowledge of Astronomy -- 2 The Cosmic Drama of Mardi -- 3 Stars and Spiritual Navigation in Clarel -- 4 Astronomical Imagery and Symbolic Antitheses in Billy Budd -- 5 Final Thoughts on Melville and Astronomy -- Appendix One: Catalogue of References to Astronomical Subjects -- Appendix Two: More Maps and Drawings from Hiram Mattison's Atlas -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M…”
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Melville among the philosophers /

Table of Contents: “…"In voiceless visagelessness": the disenchanted landscape of Clarel / Troy Jollimore -- Platonic and Nietzschean themes of transformation in Moby-Dick / Mark Anderson -- Passion, reverie, disaster, joy: what philosophers learn at sea / Edward F. …”

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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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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Writing beyond prophecy : Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville after the American Renaissance / by Kevorkian, Martin, 1968-

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A genealogy of the verse novel / by Addison, Catherine Anne, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Power, Virginiaâ#x80;#x99;s Hand and Other Blank Verse TextsHeroic Couplets -- Wilfred Scawen Blunt, Griselda -- William Allingham, Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland -- Sonnets -- George Meredith, Modern Love -- Hexameter Verse Novels -- Arthur Hugh Clough, The Bothie and Amours de Voyage -- Tetrameter Verse Novels -- Conventry Patmore, The Angel in the House and The Victories of Love -- Herman Melville, Clarel -- â#x80;#x9C;Owen Meredith, â#x80;#x9D; Lucile -- Alphonso Alva Hopkins, Geraldine…”
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