This New Companion offers fifteen short, lively essays on a range of topics in Melville studies, including a number of new topics in American literary studies - animal studies, planetary studies, law and literature, oceanic studies - and reconsiderations of classic topics such as form and aesthetics.
This New Companion offers fifteen short, lively essays on a range of topics in Melville studies, including a number of new topics in American literary studies - animal studies, planetary studies, law and literature, oceanic studies - and reconsiderations of classic topics such as form and aesthetics.
Notes on contributors Acknowledgments Chronology of Melville's life Texts and abbreviations Introduction Robert S. Levine 1. Melville and the nonhuman world Geoffrey Sanborn 2. Melville and oceanic studies Hester Blum 3. Democracy and Melville's aesthetics Jennifer Greiman 4. White-Jacket: telling who is - and ain't - a slave Jeannine Marie DeLombard 5. Reading Moby-Dick Samuel Otter 6. Pierre, life history, and the obscure Wyn Kelley 7. 'Bartleby' and the magazine fiction Graham Thompson 8. Skepticism and The Confidence-Man Maurice S. Lee 9. Melville the poet in the postbellum world Elizabeth Renker 10. Judgment in Billy Budd Gregg Crane 11. Melville and queerness without character Michael Snediker 12. Melville with pictures Elisa Tamarkin 13. Melville's planetary compass Timothy Marr 14. Wound, beast, revision: versions of the Melville meme John Bryant 15. Cold war allegories and the politics of criticism Christopher Castiglia Selected bibliography Index.
Notes on contributors Acknowledgments Chronology of Melville's life Texts and abbreviations Introduction Robert S. Levine 1. Melville and the nonhuman world Geoffrey Sanborn 2. Melville and oceanic studies Hester Blum 3. Democracy and Melville's aesthetics Jennifer Greiman 4. White-Jacket: telling who is - and ain't - a slave Jeannine Marie DeLombard 5. Reading Moby-Dick Samuel Otter 6. Pierre, life history, and the obscure Wyn Kelley 7. 'Bartleby' and the magazine fiction Graham Thompson 8. Skepticism and The Confidence-Man Maurice S. Lee 9. Melville the poet in the postbellum world Elizabeth Renker 10. Judgment in Billy Budd Gregg Crane 11. Melville and queerness without character Michael Snediker 12. Melville with pictures Elisa Tamarkin 13. Melville's planetary compass Timothy Marr 14. Wound, beast, revision: versions of the Melville meme John Bryant 15. Cold war allegories and the politics of criticism Christopher Castiglia Selected bibliography Index.
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