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Table of Contents

The Bachelor and the Orphan

Christian Reed
pp. 1-25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0017
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Melville’s Chimney: Queer Syntax and the Rhetoric of Architecture

Rasmus R. Simonsen
pp. 26-40
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0000
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Of Tombs and Wombs, or, The Whale, Part III

Peter Wayne Moe
pp. 41-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0003
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A Midrash on Melville: Recalling Ishmael, Esau, and Jacob from Lives of Exile, Estrangement, and Entanglement

Jonathan S. Gellman
pp. 61-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0006
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Bartleby’s Last Speech

Allen Frederick Stein
pp. 81-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0009
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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World by Greg Grandin (review)

Paul Downes
pp. 85-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0012
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Early Modern Poetics in Melville and Poe: Memory, Melancholy, and the Emblematic Tradition by William E. Engel (review)

Robert Sandberg
pp. 92-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0015
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Cannibal Old Me: Spoken Sources in Melville’s Early Works by Mary K. Bercaw Edwards (review)

Haskell Springer
pp. 98-103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0019
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A Whaler’s Dictionary by Dan Beachy-Quick (review)

K. L. Evans
pp. 104-107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0002
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All Astir

Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
pp. 109-112
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0005
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Report: Melville Society—Bezanson Archive Fellowship 2014

Jaime Campomar
pp. 113-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0008
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Viewing Moby-Dick through the Lens of the Charles W. Morgan

Peter Norberg
pp. 120-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0014
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Magic, Luck, and My Passage on the 38th Voyage of the Bark Charles W. Morgan

Michael P. Dyer
pp. 123-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0018
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Steering Out of the Haven

Robert K. Wallace
pp. 126-128
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0001
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“Lauding the Inhuman Sea”

Wyn Kelley
pp. 133-135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0007
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Poems Written on the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan

Elizabeth Schultz
pp. 136-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0010
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Work

John Bryant
pp. 142-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0013
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Sea-Room

Ellie Stedall
pp. 147-149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0016
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Introduction

Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
pp. 118-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0011
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A List of Books that I Did Not Read on the Voyage

Hester Blum
pp. 129-132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0004
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