Herman Melville / edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Call me Ishmael / Charles Olson
The early novels : Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket / Newton Arvin
The metaphysics of Indian-hating / Hershel Parker
Melville's gray story : symbols and meaning in "Benito Cereno" / Guy Cardwell
Melville after Moby-Dick : the tales / R.W.B. Lewis
Ishmael : the nature and forms of despair / Paul Brodtkorb, Jr.
Melville the poet / Robert Penn Warren
The changing face of comedy / Elaine Barry
Mardi : creating the creative / Richard H. Brodhead
The entangled text : Pierre and the problem of reading / Edgar A. Dryden
Form as vision in Clarel / Bryan C. Short
The Somers mutiny and Billy Budd : Melville in the penal colony / Michael Paul Rogin
Ahab's name : a reading of "The symphony" / P. Adams Sitney.