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