On Melville

Series Introduction vii

The Anatomy of Melville's Fame (1931) / O.W. Riegel 1

Herman Melville's "I and My Chimney" (1941) / Merton M. Sealts 10

Meville's "Sociality" (1945) / R. E. Watters 23

Melville's "The Town-Ho's Story" (1949) / Sherman Paul 40

Melville's " 'Soiled' Fish of the Sea" (1949) / John W. Nichol 50

Melville on Homer (1950) / R. W. B. Lewis 52

Some Notes on the Structure of The Confidence-Man (1957) / John G. Cawelti 62

Hawthorne, Melville, and "Blackness" (1965) / Hubert H. Hoeltje 73

The Domestic Adventures in Melville's Tales (1965) / Judith Slater 84

Redburn and the Faillure of Mythic Criticism (1967) / James Schroeter 97

"Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!" and Some Legends in Melville Scholarship (1968) / Sidney P. Moss 116

Melville and the Negro: From Typee to "Benito Cereno" (1969) / Eleanor E. Simpson 135

Melville's Bachelors and Maids: Interpretation Through Symbol and Metaphor (1969) / Beryl Rowland 155

Melville and the Theme of Timonism: From Pierre to The Confidence-Man (1972) / Charles N. Watson, Jr. 172

Vera's Use of the "Forms": Means and Ends in Billy Budd (1975) / Christopher W. Sten 188

The Composition of Moby-Dick (1975) / James Barbour 203

Form as Vision in Herman Melville's Clarel (1979) / Bryan C. Short 221

Moby-Dick: The Transformation of the Faustian Ethos (1979) / Gustaaf Van Cromphout 238

Melville's Comic Debate: Geniality and the Aesthetics of Repose (1983) / John Bryant 254

Index 275