Abstract
Texts and Abbreviations. List of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Preface. Part I: Introduction. 1. Melville's Life. 2. 'Agatha' and the Invention of Narrative. Part II: Melville's Early Yarns. 3. 'Making Literary Use of the Story': Typee and Omoo. 4. 'A Regular Story Founded on Striking Incidents': Mardi, Redburn, and White-Jacket. Part III: Writing New Gospel in Moby-Dick and Pierre. 5. 'So Much of Pathos & So Much of Depth': Moby-Dick. 6. 'All Tender Obligations': Pierre. Part IV: Turning a New Leaf: Short Fiction, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man. 7. 'A Leaf from Professional Experience': Short Fiction of the 1850s. 8. 'Peculiarly Latitudinarian Notions': Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man. Part V: Melville's Later Career. 9. 'Fulness & Veins & Beauty': Battle-Pieces and Clarel. 10. 'Different Considerations': Late Poetry. 11. 'Instinct with Significance': Billy Budd. Afterword: 'Restoring To You Your Own Property': Owning Melville. Appendix: The 'Agatha' Correspondence. Notes. Bibliography. Index
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