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Introduction -- Impressions of authenticity in Typee and Omoo -- Bookbindings and identity in Redburn and White-jacket -- Metaphors, markets, and Moby-Dick's "'sthetics in all things"--Pierre and the ambiguities of paper -- Reproducibility, originality, and modernity in The conf…
This engaging new study uses biographical evidence to explore Pierre, the puzzling novel that Herman Melville wrote immediately after the publication of Moby-Dick. Parker and Higgins reveal that Melville drastically altered the end of the novel after a troubling meeting with his…
Introduction: Melvillean mimesis -- The case against Melville -- Melville's reconstructed realism -- Gospel cetology -- The third realm -- God's servant -- Finale: The dust (and the spirit that moves it)
