List of Contributor Acknowledgments Chronology of Melville's Life Introduction 1 "Race" in Typee and White-Jacket 2 The Tambourine in Golory:African Culture and Melville's Art 3 Moby-Dick as Revolution 4 Pierre's Domestic Ambiguities 5 "A——!":Unreadability in The confidence-Man 6 Melville the Poet 7 Melville's Traveling god 8 Melville and Sexuaility 9 Melville,Labor,and the Discourses of Reception 10 “Bewildering Intertangliement”:Melville's Engagement with British Culture 11 Melville and the Avenging Dream Afterword Selected Bibliography Index