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9780815604952

A Reader's Guide to Herman Melville

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  • ISBN13:

    9780815604952

  • ISBN10:

    0815604955

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-04-01
  • Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

Preface vii(4)
Biographical note xi
1 The complex figure in Melville's carpet
3(15)
2 Typee and Omoo: the quest for the garden
18(18)
3 Mardi: the search for innocence
36(18)
4 Redburn and White Jacket: initiation and baptism
54(21)
5 Moby Dick: the grand hooded phantom
75(43)
6 Pierre: the flowing river in the cave of man
118(22)
7 Israel Potter: survival in the desert
140(12)
8 Tales and sketches: withdrawals and reconciliations
152(18)
9 The Confidence-Man: a comic masquerade
170(23)
10 Clarel: cross bearers all
193(25)
11 Billy Budd: the catastrophe of innocence
218(11)
12 The figure retraced
229(13)
13 The quest for form
242(11)
Selected bibliography 253(6)
Index 259

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