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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.
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.