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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Bewitching Sea 1 I. Fantasy and the Common Sailor 1. Fantasies of the Common Sailor; or, Enjoying the Knowing Jack Tar 25 2. Tarrying with the National: Fantasizing the Subject of State 57 II. Polynesian Encounters Redux 3. Tattoos in Typee: Rethinking Melville’s “Cultural Grotesque” 97 4. Melville’s “Porno-Tropics”: Re-Sexuating Pacific Encounters 123 III. Ocean-States of Exception 5. The Crater and the Master’s Reign: Cooper’s “Floating Imperium” 175 6. The Sublime Abject of Democracy: Melville’s “Floating Imperium” 197 Epilogue: Incomplete Sea 239 Notes 247 Index 305 This page intentionally left blank ...