Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. Moby-Dick and After
Chapter 1. Moby-Dick and the Divided Body
Chapter 2. Language and the Ascetic Body in Pierre and “Bartleby”
Chapter 3. Israel Potter and the Search for the Hearth
Part II. The Limits of Form
Chapter 4. Toward Deception: The Short Fiction and the Failing Body
Chapter 5. Inverted Worlds: “Benito Cereno” and The Confidence-Man
Part III. Reshaping the Lost Debate
Chapter 6. The Fissure in the Hearth: Battle Pieces
Chapter 7. Clarel and the Search for the Divine Body
Chapter 8. A Question of Distance: The Late Poetry
Part IV. An Open Ending
Chapter 9. Billy Budd and the Touch of a God
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index