Introduction / Robert S. Levine
"Race" in Typee and White-Jacket / Samuel Otter
Tambourine in glory: African culture and Melville's art / Sterling Stuckey
Moby-Dick as revolution / John Bryant
Pierre's domestic ambiguities / Wyn Kelley
"A!̲̲̲̲̲": unreadability in The Confidence Man / Elizabeth Renker
Melville the poet / Lawrence Buell
Melville's traveling God / Jenny Franchot
Melville and sexuality / Robert K. Martin
Melville, labor, and the discourses of reception / Cindy Weinstein .
"Bewildering intertanglement": Melville's engagement with British culture / Paul Giles
Melville and the avenging dream / Robert Milder.
