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- The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
- Series page
- The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Melville’s Life
- Texts and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Melville and the Nonhuman World
- 2 Melville and Oceanic Studies
- 3 Democracy and Melville’s Aesthetics
- 4 White-Jacket: Telling Who Is – and Aint – a Slave
- 5 ReadingMoby-Dick
- 6 Pierre, Life History, and the Obscure
- 7 “Bartleby” and the Magazine Fiction
- 8 Skepticism andTheConfidence-Man
- 9 Melville the Poet in the Postbellum World
- 10 Judgment inBilly Budd
- 11 Melville and Queerness without Character
- 12 Melville with Pictures
- 13 Melville’s Planetary Compass
- 14 Wound, Beast, Revision: Versions of the Melville Meme
- 15 Cold War Allegories and the Politics of Criticism
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2013
- The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
- Series page
- The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Melville’s Life
- Texts and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Melville and the Nonhuman World
- 2 Melville and Oceanic Studies
- 3 Democracy and Melville’s Aesthetics
- 4 White-Jacket: Telling Who Is – and Aint – a Slave
- 5 ReadingMoby-Dick
- 6 Pierre, Life History, and the Obscure
- 7 “Bartleby” and the Magazine Fiction
- 8 Skepticism andTheConfidence-Man
- 9 Melville the Poet in the Postbellum World
- 10 Judgment inBilly Budd
- 11 Melville and Queerness without Character
- 12 Melville with Pictures
- 13 Melville’s Planetary Compass
- 14 Wound, Beast, Revision: Versions of the Melville Meme
- 15 Cold War Allegories and the Politics of Criticism
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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- The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville , pp. i - iiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013