Frontmatter
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Preface. Melville, Mumford, Modernity
Chapter 1. Loomings (1927-29)
Chapter 2. The Whiteness of the Page (1856-65)
Chapter 3. Bitter Morning (1918-19)
Chapter 4. Fragments of War and Peace (1865-67)
Chapter 5. Reconstruction (1930-31)
Chapter 6. The Golden Day (1846-50)
Chapter 7. Retrospective (1956-82)
Chapter 8. A Bosom Friend (1850-51)
Chapter 9. Amor Threatening (1930-35)
Chapter 10. Cetology (1851-52)
Chapter 11. Neotechnics (1932-34)
Chapter 12. The Ambiguities (1852)
Chapter 13. Spiritual Freedom (1935-38)
Chapter 14. The Happy Failure (1853-55)
Chapter 15. Reconnaissance (1899-1925)
Chapter 16. Disenchantment (1853-55)
Chapter 17. Counterpoint (1938)
Chapter 18. Redburn (1839-55)
Chapter 19. Radburn (1923-39)
Chapter 20. Revolutions (1848-55)
Chapter 21. Misgivings and Preparatives (1938-39)
Chapter 22. The Piazza (1856-57)
Chapter 23. Faith (1940-43)
Chapter 24. The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating (1856-57)
Chapter 25. The Darkness of the Present Day (1944)
Chapter 26. More Gloom, and the Light of That Gloom (1856-76)
Chapter 27. Survival (1944-47)
Chapter 28. The Warmth and Chill of Wedded Life and Death (1876-91)
Chapter 29. Chronometricals and Horologicals (1944-51)
Chapter 30. The Life-Buoy (1891; 1924-29)
Chapter 31. Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth (1951-62)
Chapter 32. Revival (1919-62)
Chapter 33. Call Me Jonah (1962-82)
Chapter 34. Lizzie (1891-1906)
Chapter 35. Sophia (1982-97)
Chapter 36. Rediscovery (2019)
Acknowledgments
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index