False sympathy in Melville's Typee / Mitchell Breitwieser
Mardi : creating the creative / Richard Brodhead
White jacket : authors and audience / Wai-chee Dimock
Melville and cultural persuasion / Donald W. Pease
Incomparable America / Leo Bersani
When is a painting most like a whale? : Ishmael, Moby Dick, and the sublime / Bryan Wolf
Entangled text : Melville's Pierre and the problem of reading / Edgar A. Dryden
How to read Melville's Pierre / Sacvan Bercovitch
Flawed grandeur of Melville's Pierre / Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker
Empire of agoraphobia / Gillian Brown
Desert and empire : from "Bartleby" to "Benito Cereno" / Philippe Jaworski
Melville and race / Arnold Rampersad
"Benito Cereno" and new-world slavery / Eric Sundquist
Melville's geography of gender / Robyn Wiegman
Revolutionary fathers and confidence men / Michael Paul Rogin
Billy Budd : after the homosexual / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Melville's fist : the execution of Billy Budd / Barbara Johnson
Post-scriptum : a whale sights men / Antonio Tabucchi.