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Melville and Aesthetics

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Aesthetics and Melville
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    Chapter 2 Blubber: Melville’s Bad Writing
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    Chapter 3 Melville’s Ornamentation: On Irrelevant Beauty
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    Chapter 4 Melvillean Provocation and the Critical Art of Devotion
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    Chapter 5 Strange Sensations: Sex and Aesthetics in “The Counterpane”
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    Chapter 6 Dead Bones and Honest Wonders: The Aesthetics of Natural Science in Moby-Dick
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    Chapter 7 Pulled by the Line: Speed and Photography in Moby-Dick
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    Chapter 8 Pierre’s Nominal Conversions
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    Chapter 9 “The Silhouette of a Content”: “Bartleby” and American Literary Specificity
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    Chapter 10 The Revolutionary Aesthetics of Israel Potter
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    Chapter 11 Theatricality, Strangeness, and the Aesthetics of Plurality in The Confidence-Man
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    Chapter 12 Battle Music: Melville and the Forms of War
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    Chapter 13 Melville’s Song of Songs: Clarel as Aesthetic Pilgrimage
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Chapter title
Dead Bones and Honest Wonders: The Aesthetics of Natural Science in Moby-Dick
Chapter number 6
Book title
Melville and Aesthetics
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, January 2011
DOI 10.1057/9780230120044_6
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-29556-2, 978-0-230-12004-4
Authors

Jennifer J. Baker

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