Melville and Aesthetics

1. Introduction: Aesthetics and Melville
Samuel Otter, Geoffrey Sanborn

2. Blubber: Melville’s Bad Writing
Alex Calder

3. Melville’s Ornamentation: On Irrelevant Beauty
Theo Davis

4. Melvillean Provocation and the Critical Art of Devotion
Andrew Bois

5. Strange Sensations: Sex and Aesthetics in “The Counterpane”
Christopher Looby

6. Dead Bones and Honest Wonders: The Aesthetics of Natural Science in Moby-Dick
Jennifer J. Baker

7. Pulled by the Line: Speed and Photography in Moby-Dick
Laura Rigal

8. Pierre’s Nominal Conversions
Elizabeth Duquette

9. “The Silhouette of a Content”: “Bartleby” and American Literary Specificity
Nancy Ruttenburg

10. The Revolutionary Aesthetics of Israel Potter
Robert S. Levine

11. Theatricality, Strangeness, and the Aesthetics of Plurality in The Confidence-Man
Jennifer Greiman

12. Battle Music: Melville and the Forms of War
Peter Coviello

13. Melville’s Song of Songs: Clarel as Aesthetic Pilgrimage
Ilana Pardes

Avainsanat: Literature, Fiction, Literary Theory, North American Literature, Cultural Anthropology, Aesthetics, Nineteenth-Century Literature