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 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.

Wyn Kelley, editor of the first BlackwellCompanion to Herman Melville, is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author ofMelvilles 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 ofPublishing Scholarly Editions: Archives, Computing, and Experience (2021). He also serves as Associate Director of theMelville Electronic Libraryand an associate editor ofMelvilles Marginalia Online, and previously served as an associate editor at the Mark Twain Papers& Project at the University of California, Berkeley.

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