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Loose ends : closure and crisis in the American social text by Reising, Russell

Subjects: “…Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Israel Potter.…”

Herman Melville : an introduction by Kelley, Wyn

Contents: “…Introduction -- Melville's Life -- "Agatha" and the Invention of Narrative -- Melville's Early Yarns -- "Making Literary Use of the Story": Typee and Omoo -- "A Regular Story Founded on Striking Incidents": Mardi, Redburn, and White-Jacket -- Writing New Gospel in Moby-Dick and Pierre -- "So Much of Pathos & So Much of Depth": Moby-Dick -- "All Tender Obligations": Pierre -- Turning a New Leaf: Short Fiction, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man -- "A Leaf from Professional Experience": Short Fiction of the 1850s -- "Peculiarly Latitudinarian Notions": Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man -- Melville's Later Career -- "Fulness & Veins & Beauty": Battle-Pieces and Clarel -- "Different Considerations": Late Poetry -- "Instinct with Significance": Billy Budd -- Afterword: "Restoring to You Your Own Property": Owning Melville -- Appendix: "Agatha" Correspondence.…”
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Savage eye : Melville and the visual arts

Contents: “…Short -- Melville and John Vanderlyn: Ruin and historical fate from "Bartleby" to Israel Potter / Wyn Kelley -- The white mountains, Thomas Cole, and.…”

A Companion to Melville studies

Contents: “…Bezanson -- Reading Pierre / Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker -- Melville's tales / Johannes D. Bergmann -- Israel Potter : Common man as hero / Henning Cohen -- The Confidence-man : Melville's problem novel / John Bryant -- Melville's poems : the late agenda / William H. …”