Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Sources; 1. Anticipating Freedom: Melville and Polynesia; 2. The Broken Circle: Melville and (Post- )Romanticism; 3. The Theory and Practice of Democratic Tragedy (1): Melville's Metaphysics of Democracy: "Hawthorne and His Mosses
  • 4. The Theory and Practice of Democratic Tragedy (2): Ishmael's Grand Erections; 5. Exiled Royalties; 6. "The Ugly Socrates": Melville, Hawthorne, and the Varieties of Homoerotic Experience; 7. An Arch between Two Lives: Melville and the Mediterranean, 1856-57; 8. Uncivil Wars.
  • 9. Unworldly Yearners: Agnostic Spirituality in Clarel10. Alms for Oblivion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.