Melville’s Philosophies

Branka Arsic is Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA. She is the author of Bird Relics, Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau (Harvard, 2015), On Leaving, A Reading in Emerson (2010), Passive Constitutions or 71/2 Times Bartleby (2007). She is co-editor (with Cary Wolfe) of The Other Emerson: New Approaches, Divergent Paths (2010) and editor of The American Impersonal (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014). K. L. Evans is Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at Cornell University, USA. Previously she was Associate Professor of Literature and Philosophy at Yeshiva University in New York City. She is the author of Whale! (2003) and One Foot in the Finite: Melville's Realism Reclaimed (forthcoming 2017).

List of Figures

Introduction: Reconstructing Melville
Branka Arsic (Columbia University, USA) and K. L. Evans (Cornell University, USA)

PART ONE: WORLD-MAKING
1. Gospel Cetology
K. L. Evans (Cornell University, USA)
2. Billy Budd, Billy Budd
Stuart Burrows (Brown University, USA)
3. Science, Philosophy, and Aesthetics in “The Apple-Tree Table”
Maurice S. Lee (Boston University, USA)
4. Clarel, Doubt, Delay
Paul Hurh (University of Arizona, USA)

PART TWO: LOVE STORIES
5. The Lawyer’s Tale: Preference, Responsibility, and Personhood in Melville’s "Story of Wall-street"
Rachel Cole (Lewis & Clark College, USA)
6. Pierre in Love
Kenneth Dauber (SUNY-Buffalo, USA)
7. Phenomenology Beyond the Phantom Limb: Melvillean Figuration & Chronic Pain
Michael Snediker (University of Houston, USA)
8. "Learning, unlearning, word by word": Feeling Faith in Melville's Clarel
Rhian Williams (University of Glasgow, UK)

PART THREE: ARTS
9. Fateful Gestures: On Movement and the Maneuvers of Style in “Benito Cereno”
James D. Lilley (SUNY-Albany, USA)
10. Melville, Poetry, Prints
Samuel Otter (University of California, USA)
11. A Final Appearance with Elihu Vedder: Melville’s Visions
Elisa Tamarkin (University of California, USA)
12. La téméraire littéraire: Reckless Adaptation in Pierre and Pola X
Paul Grimstad (New York University, USA)

PART FOUR: COMMUNITIES
12. Melville’s Leviathan
Paul Downes (University of Toronto, Canada)
13. Bartleby's Screen
Colin Dayan (Vanderbilt University, USA)
14. Melville’s Misanthropology
Michael Jonik (University of Sussex, UK)
15. Desertscapes: Geological Politics in Clarel
Branka Arsic (Columbia University, USA)

Contributors
Index