Discover a fascinating new set of perspectives on the life and work of Herman Melville
A New Companion to Herman Melvilledelivers an insightful examination of Melville for the twenty-first century. Building on the success of the first BlackwellCompanion to Herman Melville, and offering a variety of tools for reading, writing, and teaching Melville and other authors, thisNew Companion offers critical, technological, and aesthetic practices that can be employed to read Melville in exciting and revelatory ways.
Editors Wyn Kelley and Christopher Ohge create a framework that reflects a pluralistic model for humanities teaching and research. In doing so, the contributing authors highlight the ways in which Melville himself was concerned with the utility of tools within fluid circuits of meaning, and how those ideas are embodied, enacted, and mediated.
In addition to considering critical theories of race, gender, sexuality, religion, transatlantic and hemispheric studies, digital humanities, book history, neurodiversity, and new biography and reception studies, this book offers:
A thorough introduction to the life of Melville, as well as the twentieth- and twenty-first-century revivals of his workComprehensive explorations of Melvilles works, including
Moby-Dick, Pierre, Piazza Tales, and
Israel Potter, as well as his poems and poetic masterpiece
ClarelPractical discussions of material books, print culture, and digital technologies as applied to MelvilleIn-depth examinations of Melville's treatment of the natural worldTwo symposium sections with concise reflections on art and adaptation, and on teaching and public engagement
A New Companion to Herman Melville provides essential reading for scholars and students ranging from undergraduate and graduate students to more advanced scholars and specialists in the field.
Contributors xi Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1Wyn Kelley and Christopher Ohge
Part I Lives 9
1 Melville the Life: Accident, Coincidence, and Adjacency 11John Bryant
2 Melvilles Twentieth-Century Revivals 23Maki Sadahiro
3 Melvilles Twenty-First Century Lives: Reception and Criticism 36Brian Yothers
Part II Works 53
4 Typee and Omoo 55Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
5 Melvilles Mardi: A Certain Something Unmanageable 66Timothy Marr
6 Discipline and Pleasure in Redburn and White-Jacket 78Édouard Marsoin
7 Moby-Dick 91Geoffrey Sanborn
8 Spiritualism in Pierre; or, The Ambiguities 102Hannah Lauren Murray
9 Refugee, Exile, Alien: Israel Potters Migrant Turns 113Rodrigo Lazo
10 In Other Worlds: Mystery and Method in The Piazza Tales 123Christopher Sten
11 Art of the Scam: The Confidence-Man 134Caitlin Smith
12 Lyric Anonymity in Battle-Pieces 147Tony McGowan
13 Re-writing the Holy Land Narrative Tradition: Clarel as Poetic Pilgrimage 160Jonathan A. Cook
14 The Fair Poets Name: Late Poems 171Peter Riley
15 Melvilles Ragged Edges: Billy Budd, Sailor and the Arts of Incompletion 184John Wenke
Part III Texts, Print Culture, and Digital Technologies 197
16 A Widow with Her Husband Alive!: Gender, Collaboration, and Melville Studies 199Adam Fales and Jordan Alexander Stein
17 Melvilles Cervantes 212Rosa Angélica Martínez
18 Melvilles Shakespeare: Survivors and Stepmothers 224David Greven
19 Melvilles Milton: Of the Devils Party and Knows It 236Justina Torrance
20 Genre, Race, and the Printed Book 248Katie McGettigan
21 Melville and Periodical Culture 261Graham Thompson
22 Mediating Babo 272Robert K. Wallace
23 Books and Marginalia, Real and Virtual 283Steven Olsen-Smith
24 Counting (on) Melville: Moby-Dick, Computational Literary Studies, and Dictionary-Based Readings 297Dennis Mischke
25 Digital Melville: Computation and Dead-Reckoning 313Christopher Ohge
Part IV Circuits and Systems 329
26 Transatlantic Crossings 331Edward Sugden
27 Holy Dread: Taboo in Typee and The Whiteness of the Whale 341Alex Calder
28 Melvilles Spanish: Geopolitics and Language in a Continental Writer 352Emilio Irigoyen
29 The Pequod as Middle Passage: Melvilles Meditation on the Long Shipwreck 362Michael E. Sawyer
30 Melvilles Spectral Mutinies 373Lenora Warren
31 Religion and Secularity 383Dawn Coleman
32 Ruthless, Radical Democracy 399Jennifer Greiman
33 Melville and Masculinity 410Ellen Weinauer
34 Melville and Philosophy: Will, Agency, and Natural Justice 422Michael Jonik
35 Tawny Savages and Blank-Looking Girls: Melville, Capitalism, and Racialized Labor 436Ivy G. Wilson
Part V The Natural World 445
36 Ocean 447Richard J. King
37 Verdure 460Tom Nurmi
38 Anatomy 472Jennifer J. Baker
39 A Mute Wooing: Animism in Pierre 485Pilar Martínez Benedí and Ralph James Savarese
Part VI Symposium I: Art and Adaptation 497
40 Art and Illustration 499Matt Kish
41 Anthologizing Moby-Dick; or, Classifying a Chaos 506Kylan Rice and Elizabeth Schultz
42 On Ekphrasis 512Dan Beachy-Quick
43 Melville in Film Adaptation: The Lives and Deaths of Pip 519Jaime Campomar
Part VII Symposium II: Teaching, Learning, and Public Engagement 527
44 Of Whales in Paint: Melville in the High School Classroom 529Jeffrey Markham
45 Diversity, Reading Publics, and the Community College 535James Noel
46 Teaching Melville Through the Lens of Popular Culture 541Martina Pfeiler
47 Visualizing Melville: A Museum Exhibition Perspective 550Michael P. Dyer Index 559