Herman Melville / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Contributor Bloom, Harold.

Edition Statement:New ed.

Imprint:New York, NY : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2008.

Descriptionviii, 285 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Towards Bartleby the Scrivener / Milton R. Stern -- Melville's problematic "being" / Sanford E. Marovitz -- Reevisioning America : Melville's Benito Cereno / Sandra A. Zagarell -- "Author at the time" : Tommo and Melville's self-discovery in Typee / Bryan C. Short -- Melville and the woman's story / Nancy Fredericks -- To tell over again the story just told : the composition of Melville's Redburn / Stephen Mathewson -- Israel Potter : Melville's citizen of the universe / Bill Christophersen -- Disquieting encounters : male intrusions/female realms in Melville / Judith Hiltner -- Mardi : narrative self-fashioning and the play of possibility / John Wenke -- Whose book is Moby-Dick? / Merton M. Sealts, Jr -- Naples and HMS Bellipotent : Melville on the police state / Stanton Garner -- Naturalist psychology in Billy Budd / Thomas Hove -- We are family : Melville's Pierre / Cindy Weinstein -- Discipline and the lash in Melville's White-jacket / Peter Bellis.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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