In this Issue

Table of Contents

Shadows in the Shenandoah: Melville, Slavery, and the Elegiac Landscape

Tom Nurmi
pp. 7-24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0043
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Battle-Pieces and Vernacular Poetics

Timothy Sweet
pp. 25-42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0046
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Melville’s Low-Relief Officer Corps

Tony McGowan
pp. 43-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0049
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Melville’s Reconstructions: “The Swamp Angel,” “‘Formerly a Slave,’” and the Moorish Maid in “Lee in the Capitol”

Brian Yothers
pp. 63-78
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0052
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Reconciliation as Sequel and Supplement: Drum-Taps and Battle-Pieces

Peter J. Bellis
pp. 79-93
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0055
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Melville as Poet: The Art of “Pulsed Life” ed. by Sanford E. Marovitz (review)

R. D. Madison
pp. 95-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0039
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A Political Companion to Herman Melville ed. by Jason Frank (review)

Hoang Gia Phan
pp. 100-105
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0042
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Principle and Propensity: Experience and Religion in the Nineteenth-Century British and American Bildungsroman Kelsey L. Bennett (review)

Dawn Coleman
p. 106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0045
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Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex: The Complete Illustrated Edition: The Extraordinary and Distressing Memoir that Inspired Herman Melville’s by Owen Chase (review)

Dawn Coleman
pp. 106-107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0048
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Moby-Dick ed. by Robert C. Evans (review)

Dawn Coleman
p. 107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0051
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Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature: Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville by David Greven (review)

Dawn Coleman
p. 108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0054
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The Melville-Hawthorne Connection: A Study of the Literary Friendship by Erik Hage (review)

Dawn Coleman
pp. 108-109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0038
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Mocha Dick: The Legend and the Fury by Brian Heinz (review)

Dawn Coleman
pp. 109-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0041
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Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance by Mark Rifkin (review)

Dawn Coleman
p. 110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0044
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Alcohol in the Writings of Herman Melville: “The Ever-Devilish God of Grog” by Corey Evans Thompson (review)

Dawn Coleman
pp. 110-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0047
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All Astir

Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
pp. 113-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0050
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Melville’s Relations: Organizer: Elizabeth Duquette, Gettysburg College Chair: Justine Murison, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

pp. 118-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0053
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Melville’s Money: Chair: Andrew Kopec, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

pp. 122-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0056
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Herman Melville and Walt Whitman Write the Civil War: An Introduction

Christopher Sten, Tyler Hoffman
pp. 1-6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2015.0040
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