Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface. Melville, Mumford, Modernity -- Chapter
... 1. Loomings (1927-29) -- Chapter 2. The Whiteness of the Page (1856-65) -- Chapter 3. Bitter Morning (1918-19) -- Chapter 4. Fragments of War and Peace (1865-67) -- Chapter 5. Reconstruction (1930-31) -- Chapter 6. The Golden Day (1846-50) -- Chapter 7. Retrospective (1956-82) -- Chapter 8. A Bosom Friend (1850-51) -- Chapter 9. Amor Threatening (1930-35) -- Chapter 10. Cetology (1851-52) -- Chapter 11. Neotechnics (1932-34) -- Chapter 12. The Ambiguities (1852) -- Chapter 13. Spiritual Freedom (1935-38) -- Chapter 14. The Happy Failure (1853-55) -- Chapter 15. Reconnaissance (1899-1925) -- Chapter 16. Disenchantment (1853-55) -- Chapter 17. Counterpoint (1938) -- Chapter 18. Redburn (1839-55) -- Chapter 19. Radburn (1923-39) -- Chapter 20. Revolutions (1848-55) -- Chapter 21. Misgivings and Preparatives (1938-39) -- Chapter 22. The Piazza (1856-57) -- Chapter 23. Faith (1940-43) -- Chapter 24. The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating (1856-57) -- Chapter 25. The Darkness of the Present Day (1944) -- Chapter 26. More Gloom, and the Light of That Gloom (1856-76) -- Chapter 27. Survival (1944-47) -- Chapter 28. The Warmth and Chill of Wedded Life and Death (1876-91) -- Chapter 29. Chronometricals and Horologicals (1944-51) -- Chapter 30. The Life-Buoy (1891; 1924-29) -- Chapter 31. Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth (1951-62) -- Chapter 32. Revival (1919-62) -- Chapter 33. Call Me Jonah (1962-82) -- Chapter 34. Lizzie (1891-1906) -- Chapter 35. Sophia (1982-97) -- Chapter 36. Rediscovery (2019) -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Index. Read More