List of Contributor
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Melville's Life
Introduction
1 "Race" in Typee and White-Jacket
2 The Tambourine in Golory:African Culture and Melville's Art
3 Moby-Dick as Revolution
4 Pierre's Domestic Ambiguities
5 "A——!":Unreadability in The confidence-Man
6 Melville the Poet
7 Melville's Traveling god
8 Melville and Sexuaility
9 Melville,Labor,and the Discourses of Reception
10 “Bewildering Intertangliement”:Melville's Engagement with British Culture
11 Melville and the Avenging Dream
Afterword
Selected Bibliography
Index