Wyn Kelley is Senior Lecturer in the Literature Faculty at MIT. The author of Melville’s City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York (1996) and A Short Guide to Herman Melville (Blackwell Publishing, 2008), she is also Associate Editor of the Melville Electronic Library.

“As a guide to various perspectives on American literary studies at the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century, it has its value.”—(Reference Reviews, 1 December 2012)

• List of Illustrations xiNotes on Contributors xiiAcknowledgments xxTexts and Abbreviations xxiPreface xxiiiWyn KelleyPart I Travels 11 A Traveling LifeLaurie Robertson-Lorant 32 Cosmopolitanism and Traveling CulturePeter Gibian 193 Melville’s World ReadersA. Robert Lee 354 Global MelvillePaul Lyons 52Part II Geographies 695 Science and the EarthBruce A. Harvey 716 Ships, Whaling, and the SeaMary K. Bercaw Edwards 837 Pacific ParadisesAlex Calder 988 Atlantic TradeHester Blum 1139 Ancient LandsBasem L. Ra’ad 129Part III Nations 14710 Democracy and its DiscontentsDennis Berthold 14911 Urbanization, Class Struggle, and ReformCarol Colatrella 16512 Wicked Books: Melville and ReligionHilton Obenzinger 18113 Pierre’s Bad Associations: Public Life in the Institutional NationChristopher Castiglia 19714 Melville, Slavery, and the American DilemmaJohn Stauffer 21415 Gender and SexualityLeland S. Person 231Part IV Libraries 24716 The Legacy of BritainRobin Grey 24917 Romantic Philosophy, Transcendentalism, and NatureRachela Permenter 26618 Literature of Exploration and the SeaR. D. Madison 28219 Death and Literature: Melville and the EpitaphEdgar A. Dryden 29920 The Company of Women AuthorsCharlene Avallone 31321 Hawthorne and RaceEllen Weinauer 32722 “Unlike Things Must Meet and Mate”:Melville and the Visual ArtsRobert K. Wallace 342Part V Texts 36323 The Motive for Metaphor:Typee, Omoo, and Mardi Geoffrey Sanborn 36524 Artist at Work:Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and Pierre Cindy Weinstein 37825 The Language of Moby-Dick:“Read It If You Can”Maurice S. Lee 39326 Threading the Labyrinth: Moby-Dick as Hybrid EpicChristopher Sten 40827 The Female Subject in Pierre and The Piazza Tales Caroline Levander 42328 Narrative Shock in “Bartleby, the Scrivener,”“The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,” and “Benito Cereno”Marvin Fisher 43529 Fluid Identity in Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man Gale Temple 45130 How Clarel WorksSamuel Otter 46731 Melville the Realist PoetElizabeth Renker 48232 Melville’s Transhistorical Voice:Billy Budd, Sailor and the Fragmentation of FormsJohn Wenke 497Part VI Meanings 51333 The Melville RevivalSanford E. Marovitz 51534 Creating Icons:Melville in Visual Media and Popular CultureElizabeth Schultz 53235 The Melville TextJohn Bryant 553Index 567