附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.
Manifest: "Cast by Means of Figures" -- "Dumb and deaf": Melville's youth -- ""The author at the time": Typee -- "No further connection": Omoo -- "The drawn soul of genius": Mardi -- "More names, than things": Redburn -- "The strong shunning of death": White-Jacket -- "So as to kill time": Moby-Dick -- "Nimble center, circumference elastic": Pierre -- "A dream of the eye": magazine fiction -- "Mysterious touches": The Confidence-Man -- "Such a cynosure": A Pisgah view of Billy Budd -- Topics of fiction.
