The new Cambridge companion to Herman Melville /
Levine, Robert S.(Robert Steven),1953-editor of compilation.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and index.
Melville and the nonhuman world / Geoffrey Sanborn -- Melville and oceanic studies / Hester Blum -- Democracy and Melville's aesthetics / Jennifer Greiman -- White-jacket : Telling who is - and aint - a slave / Jeannine Marie Delombard -- Reading Moby-Dick / Samuel Otter -- Pierre, life history, and the obscure / Wyn Kelley -- "Bartleby" and the magazine fiction / Graham Thompson -- Skepticism and The Confidence-Man / Maurice S. Lee -- Melville the poet in the postbellum world / Elizabeth Renker -- Judgment in Billy Budd / Gregg Crane -- Melville and queerness without character / Michael D. Snediker -- Melville with pictures / Elisa Tamarkin -- Melville's planetary compass / Timothy Marr -- Wound, beast, revision : versions of the Melville Meme / John Bryant -- Cold war allegories and the politics of criticism / Christopher Castiglia.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891