Introduction ROBERT S. LEVINE 1
1 “Race” in Typee and White-Jacket SAMUEL OTTER 12
2 The Tambourine in Glory: African Culture and Melville’s Art STERLING STUCKEY 37
3 Moby-Dick as Revolution JOHN BRYANT 65
4 Pierre’s Domestic Ambiguities WYN KELLEY 91
5 “A ———!”：Unreadability in The Confidence-Man ELIZABETH RENKER 114
6 Melville the Poet LAWRENCE BUELL 135
7 Melville’s Traveling God JENNY FRANCHOT 157
8 Melville and Sexuality ROBERT K. MARTIN 186
9 Melville, Labor, and the Discourses of Reception CINDY WEINSTEIN 202
10 “Bewildering Intertanglement”：Melville’s Engagement with British Culture PAUL GILES 224
11 Melville and the Avenging Dream ROBERT MILDER 250
Afterword ANDREW DELBANCO 279
Selected Bibliography 287
Index 299