Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-273) and index.
Towards "Bartleby the scrivener" / Milton R. Stern -- Melville's problematic "being" / Sanford E. Marovitz -- Reenvisioning America : Melville's "Benito cereno" / Sandra A. Zagarell -- Allegory and breakdown in The confidence-man: Melville's comedy of doubt / John Bryant -- "The author at the time" : Tommo and Melville's self-discovery in Typee / Bryan C. Short -- Melville and the woman's story / Nancy Fredericks -- "To tell over again the story just told" : the composition of Melville's Redburn / Stephen Mathewson -- Israel Potter : Melville's "citizen of the universe" / Bill Christophersen -- Disquieting encounters : male intrusions/female realms in Melville / Judith Hiltner -- Narrative self-fashioning and the play of possibility / John Wenke -- Whose book is Moby-Dick? / Merton M. Sealts, Jr. -- Naples and HMS Bellipotent : Melville on the police state / Stanton Garner -- Naturalist psychology in Billy Budd / Thomas Hove -- We are family : Melville's Pierre / Cindy Weinstein -- Discipline and the lash in Melville's White-jacket / Peter Bellis.
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This new edition of essays gathers together some of the best criticism available on the works of Herman Melville.
Melville, Herman,1819-1891-- Criticism and interpretation.