LGBTQ literature /

Table of Contents: “…Homoeroticism in Rockwell Kent's illustrations of Melville's Moby-Dick /…”
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The American novel to 1870 /

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Handbook of the American novel of the nineteenth century /

Table of Contents: “…14. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) /…”
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Jackson Pollock : veiling the image / by Wigal, Donald, 1933-

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Uncertain chances : science, skepticism, and belief in nineteenth-century American literature / by Lee, Maurice S.

Table of Contents: “…Probably Poe -- Moby-Dick and the opposite of providence -- Doubting if doubt itself be doubting: after Moby-Dick -- Douglass's long run -- Roughly Thoreau -- Dickinson's precarious steps, surprising leaps, and bounds.…”

The Platonian Leviathan / by Craig, Leon Harold

Table of Contents: “…A Melvillian overture : Moby-Dick and philosophy -- Part one, The problematical Leviathan : Kakaphonia -- A Conradian intermezzo : variations on the state of nature -- Part two, The platonic Leviathan : Harmonia -- A Melvillian coda : Moby-Dick as fourfold allegory.…”
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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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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.…”

Treaty shirts : October 2034 -- a familiar treatise on the White Earth Nation / by Vizenor, Gerald Robert, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Archive -- Moby Dick -- Savage Love -- Gichi Noodin -- Hole in the Storm -- Waasese -- Justice Molly Creche -- Archive…”

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

Table of Contents: “…An English midlands bookshelf -- An archway into the future -- Everyman and the dead narrator -- How Moby-Dick shaped Women in love -- A little hesperides of the soul and body -- The symbolistic all-knowledge -- The Melville centenary -- Typee under Etna -- Two days in Tahiti -- The voyage home -- An essay on sources.…”
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The American classics : a personal essay / by Donoghue, Denis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : after Emerson -- Emerson and "The American Scholar" -- Moby-Dick -- The Scarlet letter -- Walden -- Leaves of grass -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.…”

The American classics : a personal essay / by Donoghue, Denis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : after Emerson -- Emerson and "The American Scholar" -- Moby-Dick -- The Scarlet letter -- Walden -- Leaves of grass -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.…”
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How D. H. Lawrence read Herman Melville / by Hayes, Kevin J.

Table of Contents: “…An English midlands bookshelf -- An archway into the future -- Everyman and the dead narrator -- How Moby-Dick shaped Women in love -- A little hesperides of the soul and body -- The symbolistic all-knowledge -- The Melville centenary -- Typee under Etna -- Two days in Tahiti -- The voyage home -- An essay on sources.…”
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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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Melville and aesthetics /

Table of Contents: “…Blubber: Melville's bad writing / Alex Calder -- Melville's ornamentation: on irrelevant beauty / Theo Davis -- Melvillean provocation and the critical art of devotion / Andrew DuBois -- Strange sensations: sex and aesthetics in "The counterpane" / Christopher Looby -- Dead bones and honest wonders: the aesthetics of natural science in Moby-Dick / Jennifer J. Baker -- Pulled by the line: speed and photography in Moby-Dick / Laura Rigal -- Pierre's nominal conversions / Elizabeth Duquette -- "The silhouette of a content": "Bartleby" and American literary specificity / Nancy Ruttenburg -- The revolutionary aesthetics of Israel Potter / Robert S. …”

Melville and the idea of blackness : race and imperialism in nineteenth-century America / by Freeburg, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Knowing the "bottomless deep": Moby-Dick -- Living "within the maelstrom": Pierre -- Thwarting the "regulated mind": "Benito Cereno" -- Embodying the "assaults of time": "the encantadas."…”
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Melville and the idea of blackness : race and imperialism in nineteenth-century America / by Freeburg, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Knowing the "bottomless deep": Moby-Dick -- Living "within the maelstrom": Pierre -- Thwarting the "regulated mind": "Benito Cereno" -- Embodying the "assaults of time": "the encantadas."…”
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Reader's block / by Markson, David

The sign of the cannibal : Melville and the making of a postcolonial reader / by Sanborn, Geoffrey

Table of Contents: “…In the wake of the Resolution : the post-enlightenment discourse on cannibalism -- The terror of their name : reflections on Typee -- The aftersight : Moby Dick and the spectacle of savagery -- Walking shadows : "Benito Cereno" and the colonial stage.…”

Melville's anatomies / by Otter, Samuel, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…The anatomical impulse: ship, state, and body ; Slaves: the scene of flogging in Douglass, Pennington, and Northup ; Sailors: the analogy with slavery in Leech, McNally, Browne, and Dana ; Flogged free: White-Jacket's emancipation ; Sailing on -- Getting inside heads in Moby-Dick. Middle-aged man with a skull: Samuel George ; Morton and the quest for cranial contents ; Dry bones: the laws of anatomy in antebellum ethnology ; Skin deep: the ethnological critiques of Douglass, Brown, and Apess ; A sight of sights to see: cetology and ethnology in Moby-Dick ; To look and to know -- Penetrating eyes in Pierre. …”