Melville and Aesthetics

Introduction: Aesthetics and Melville, S.Otter & G.Sanborn PART I: THE MATTER OF STYLE Blubber: Melville's Bad Writing, A.Calder Melville's Ornamentation: On Irrelevant Beauty, T.Davis Melvillean Provocation and the Critical Art of Devotion, A.Dubois PART II: CASE STUDIES Strange Sensations: Sex and Aesthetics in 'The Counterpane', C.Looby Dead Bones and Honest Wonders: The Aesthetics of Natural Science in Moby-Dick, J.J.Baker Pulled by the Line: Speed and Photography in Moby-Dick, L.Rigal 'Pierre's Nominal Conversions', E.Duquette 'The Silhouette of a Content': 'Bartleby' and American Literary Specificity, N.Ruttenburg The Revolutionary Aesthetics of Israel Potter, R.S.Levine Theatricality, Strangeness, and the Aesthetics of Plurality in The Confidence-Man, J.Greiman Battle Music: Melville and the Forms of War, P.Coviello Melville's Song of Songs: Clarel as Aesthetic Pilgrimage, I.Pardes... Mehr