A New Companion to Herman Melville

ISBN-13: 9781119668503 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 592 str.

Christopher Ohge; Wyn Kelley

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Contributors xiAcknowledgments xixIntroduction 1Wyn Kelley and Christopher OhgePart I Lives 91 Melville the Life: Accident, Coincidence, and Adjacency 11John Bryant2 Melville's Twentieth-Century Revivals 23Maki Sadahiro3 Melville's Twenty-First Century Lives: Reception and Criticism 36Brian YothersPart II Works 534 Typee and Omoo 55Mary K. Bercaw Edwards5 Melville's Mardi: "A Certain Something Unmanageable" 66Timothy Marr6 Discipline and Pleasure in Redburn and White-Jacket 78Édouard Marsoin7 Moby-Dick 91Geoffrey Sanborn8 Spiritualism in Pierre; or, The Ambiguities 102Hannah Lauren Murray9 Refugee, Exile, Alien: Israel Potter's Migrant Turns 113Rodrigo Lazo10 In Other Worlds: Mystery and Method in The Piazza Tales 123Christopher Sten11 Art of the Scam: The Confidence-Man 134Caitlin Smith12 Lyric Anonymity in Battle-Pieces 147Tony McGowan13 Re-writing the Holy Land Narrative Tradition: Clarel as Poetic Pilgrimage 160Jonathan A. Cook14 "The Fair Poet's Name": Late Poems 171Peter Riley15 Melville's "Ragged Edges": Billy Budd, Sailor and the Arts of Incompletion 184John WenkePart III Texts, Print Culture, and Digital Technologies 19716 "A Widow with Her Husband Alive!": Gender, Collaboration, and Melville Studies 199Adam Fales and Jordan Alexander Stein17 Melville's Cervantes 212Rosa Angélica Martínez18 Melville's Shakespeare: Survivors and Stepmothers 224David Greven19 Melville's Milton: Of the Devil's Party and Knows It 236Justina Torrance20 Genre, Race, and the Printed Book 248Katie McGettigan21 Melville and Periodical Culture 261Graham Thompson22 Mediating Babo 272Robert K. Wallace23 Books and Marginalia, Real and Virtual 283Steven Olsen-Smith24 Counting (on) Melville: Moby-Dick, Computational Literary Studies, and Dictionary-Based Readings 297Dennis Mischke25 Digital Melville: Computation and Dead-Reckoning 313Christopher OhgePart IV Circuits and Systems 32926 Transatlantic Crossings 331Edward Sugden27 Holy Dread: Taboo in Typee and "The Whiteness of the Whale" 341Alex Calder28 Melville's "Spanish": Geopolitics and Language in a Continental Writer 352Emilio Irigoyen29 The Pequod as Middle Passage: Melville's Meditation on the "Long" Shipwreck 362Michael E. Sawyer30 Melville's Spectral Mutinies 373Lenora Warren31 Religion and Secularity 383Dawn Coleman32 Ruthless, Radical Democracy 399Jennifer Greiman33 Melville and Masculinity 410Ellen Weinauer34 Melville and Philosophy: Will, Agency, and "Natural Justice" 422Michael Jonik35 Tawny Savages and Blank-Looking Girls: Melville, Capitalism, and Racialized Labor 436Ivy G. WilsonPart V The Natural World 44536 Ocean 447Richard J. King37 Verdure 460Tom Nurmi38 Anatomy 472Jennifer J. Baker39 A "Mute Wooing": Animism in Pierre 485Pilar Martínez Benedí and Ralph James SavaresePart VI Symposium I: Art and Adaptation 49740 Art and Illustration 499Matt Kish41 Anthologizing Moby-Dick; or, Classifying a Chaos 506Kylan Rice and Elizabeth Schultz42 On Ekphrasis 512Dan Beachy-Quick43 Melville in Film Adaptation: The Lives and Deaths of Pip 519Jaime CampomarPart VII Symposium II: Teaching, Learning, and Public Engagement 52744 "Of Whales in Paint": Melville in the High School Classroom 529Jeffrey Markham45 Diversity, Reading Publics, and the Community College 535James Noel46 Teaching Melville Through the Lens of Popular Culture 541Martina Pfeiler47 Visualizing Melville: A Museum Exhibition Perspective 550Michael P. Dyer Index 559

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Wyn Kelley, editor of the first Blackwell Companion to Herman Melville, is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Melville's City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York (1996), Herman Melville: An Introduction (2008), and, with Henry Jenkins, Reading in a Participatory Culture: Re-Mixing Moby-Dick in the English Classroom (2013).Christopher Ohge is Senior Lecturer in Digital Approaches to Literature at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and author of Publishing Scholarly Editions: Archives, Computing, and Experience (2021). He also serves as Associate Director of the Melville Electronic Library and an associate editor of Melville's Marginalia Online, and previously served as an associate editor at the Mark Twain Papers & Project at the University of California, Berkeley.