Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is Professor of English at Central Michigan University. He is the Los Angeles Review of Books editor in charge of horror, and the founder and director of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic.Monika Elbert is Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at Montclair State University. She is the editor of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review.

Americanists have long needed a comprehensive study of Melvilles Gothicism. In Gothic Melville, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Monika Elbert have met that need, bringing together thirteen fresh, informed, illuminating essays on a wide range of the authors Gothic writings “ from Moby-Dick to The Encantadas.

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Dead, Blind Walls: Melville’s GothicismJeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Monika ElbertECOGOTHIC‘“The Encantadas,” Enchantment, and Spaces Outside History’Lisa West‘“All dripping in tangles green”: The Ecogothic Vision of Melville’s John Marr and OtherSailors with Some Sea Pieces’Steve Bellomy‘“If there be no God”: Materialism and the Naturalist Gothic in Clarel’Elizabeth AdamsBODIES AS MATTER‘Attack of the “Undoffable Incubus”: The Problem of Art as Body in Herman Melville’s Pierre’Michael Schwartz‘Those Who Eat and Those Who Get Eaten: Cannibalism and Capitalism in Melville’s Typee and “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids”’Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock‘”The Body Suspended”: The Gothic Corporeality in Billy Budd’Christopher LoveDEMOCRACY AND TYRANNY‘The Gothic and Radical Democracy in Melville’s Benito Cereno’Eric Wolfe‘The Confidence-Man and the Cynical Gothic’Craig Stensrud‘Ahab as Gothic Villain’Jonathan Cook‘Sunday in the Office with Bartleby: Gothic Naturalism on Wall Street’Wendy RydenGENDER AND GOTHIC RELATIONSHIPS‘Crossing ‘the Deadly Space Between’: Melville’s Queer Gothic’Gale Temple‘Gothic Vacancies: The Missing Women in Melville's Works’Monika Elbert‘“By their very contradictions they are made to correspond”: Symbolic Abjection and Gothic Convention in Herman Melville’s Pierre’Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith