{"product_id":"a-companion-to-herman-melville-9781119045274","title":"A Companion to Herman Melville","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*      * This comprehensive resource demonstrates the relevance of Melville   s works in the twenty-first century.       * Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As a guide to various perspectives on American literary studies at the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century, it has its value.”—(\u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 December 2012)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xx\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTexts and Abbreviations xxi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xxiii\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWyn Kelley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Travels 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 A Traveling Life\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLaurie Robertson-Lorant 3\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Cosmopolitanism and Traveling Culture\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter Gibian 19\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Melville’s World Readers\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eA. Robert Lee 35\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Global Melville\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul Lyons 52\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Geographies 69\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Science and the Earth\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBruce A. Harvey 71\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Ships, Whaling, and the Sea\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMary K. Bercaw Edwards 83\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Pacific Paradises\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlex Calder 98\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Atlantic Trade\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHester Blum 113\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Ancient Lands\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBasem L. Ra’ad 129\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Nations 147\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Democracy and its Discontents\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDennis Berthold 149\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Urbanization, Class Struggle, and Reform\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCarol Colatrella 165\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Wicked Books: Melville and Religion\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHilton Obenzinger 181\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Pierre’s Bad Associations: Public Life in the Institutional Nation\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher Castiglia 197\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Melville, Slavery, and the American Dilemma\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Stauffer 214\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Gender and Sexuality\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLeland S. Person 231\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Libraries 247\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Legacy of Britain\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobin Grey 249\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Romantic Philosophy, Transcendentalism, and Nature\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRachela Permenter 266\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Literature of Exploration and the Sea\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eR. D. Madison 282\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Death and Literature: Melville and the Epitaph\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdgar A. Dryden 299\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 The Company of Women Authors\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCharlene Avallone 313\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Hawthorne and Race\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEllen Weinauer 327\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 “Unlike Things Must Meet and Mate”:\u003cbr\u003e Melville and the Visual Arts\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert K. Wallace 342\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Texts 363\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 The Motive for Metaphor:\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTypee, Omoo, and Mardi Geoffrey Sanborn 365\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Artist at Work:\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRedburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and Pierre Cindy Weinstein 378\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 The Language of Moby-Dick:\u003cbr\u003e “Read It If You Can”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaurice S. Lee 393\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Threading the Labyrinth: Moby-Dick as Hybrid Epic\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher Sten 408\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 The Female Subject in Pierre and The Piazza Tales \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCaroline Levander 423\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Narrative Shock in “Bartleby, the Scrivener,”\u003cbr\u003e “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,” and “Benito Cereno”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarvin Fisher 435\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Fluid Identity in Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGale Temple 451\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 How Clarel Works\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSamuel Otter 467\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Melville the Realist Poet\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Renker 482\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Melville’s Transhistorical Voice:\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBilly Budd, Sailor \u003c\/i\u003eand the Fragmentation of Forms\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e John Wenke 497\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Meanings 513\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 The Melville Revival\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSanford E. 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