Preface: "to fight some other world" / John Bryant
Introduction: renderings of the whale / Mary K. Bercaw Edwards and Timothy Marr
Constructing Moby-Dick: breakdown and redemption
Composing Moby-Dick: what might have happened: the Astman Distinguished Lecture / E. L. Doctorow
"Ungainly gambols" and circumnavigating the truth: breaking the narrative of Moby-Dick / Lori N. Howard
"Chiefly known by his rod": the Book of Jonah, Mapple's sermon, and scapegoating / Giorgio Mariani
Man, mind, whale
Filling the void: a Lacanian angle of vision on Moby-Dick / Dennis Williams
Melville, Moby-Dick, and the depressive mind: Queequeg, Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask as symbolic characters / Wendy Stallard Flory
Correspondences: paranoiac lexicographers and Melvillean heroes / Sanford E. Marovitz
Moby-Dick and law
"Deadly voids and unbidden infidelities": death, memory, and the law in Moby-Dick / John T. Matteson
"I stand alone here upon an open sea": Starbuck and the limits of positive law / Kathryn Mudgett
Reading and mapping
Morality and rhetoric in Moby-Dick / Michael Kearns
Moby-Dick's Lessons: or, How Reading Might Save One's Life / Carol Colatrella
Mapping and Measurement in Moby-Dick / Anne Baker
Flood-gates of the wonder world: race and the Americas
"In this simple savage old rules would not apply": cetology and the subject of race in Moby-Dick / Mark K. Burns
"Kings of the upside-down world": challenging white hegemony in Moby-Dick / Susan Garbarini Fanning
"So Spanishly poetic": Moby-Dick's doubloon and Latin America / Rodrigo J. Lazo
Dreaming a dream of interracial bonds: from Hope Leslie to Moby-Dick / Yukiko Oshima
Very like a whale: Moby-Dick in translation
"There's another rendering now": on translating Moby-Dick into German / Daniel Göske
The Brazilian whale / Irene Hirsch
Modern breachings: Moby-Dick on stage and web
Leviathanic revelations: Laurie Anderson's, Rinde Eckert's, and John Barrymore's Moby Dicks / Samuel Otter
Feminizing Moby-Dick: contemporary women perform the whale / Elizabeth Schultz
Fusing with the muse: Eckert's Great whales as homage and prophecy / Robert K. Wallace
"Lying in various attitudes": staging Melville's Pip in digital media / Wyn Kelley.