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Preface ix
List of abbreviations xi
Life 1
Contexts 12
The existential context 12
The historical context 13
The urban context 14
The visual context 16
The psychological context 19
The American context 20
The context of labor 21
The context of slavery 22
The world context 23
The imaginative context 23
Writings 25
The faces of Types 27
Omoo: the rover as flaneur 33
Becoming a great writer: Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket 39
Confronting Moby-Dick 46
Pierre: the making of a tragic hero 60
Private letters 67
Rewriting history: Israel Potter and "Benito Cereno" 74
Modern man: "The Lightning-Rod Man," The Confidence-Man, "Bartleby, the Scrivener" 81
Battle-Pieces: the voices of war 87
Clarel, an American epic 92
The return to prose: Burgundy Club sketches, John Marr 99
Billy Budd: visions and revisions 105
Reception 112
Notes 124
Guide to further reading 130
Index 135
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