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Table of Contents

Melville’s “October Mountain”: A Mystery Solved?

Zachary Turpin
pp. 1-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2017.0000
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Melville’s Letter to the World

Zachary Turpin
pp. 8-11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2017.0001
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The Financial and Legal Evidence for Two City Residences and Two Farms of the Melvilles

John M. J. Gretchko
pp. 12-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2017.0002
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Surrogate’s Court Files Reveal Valuable Melville Family Documents

Warren Broderick
pp. 29-40
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2017.0003
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In a Melville Pioneer’s Archive: Raymond Weaver’s Fragmentary Second Book

Aimery de France Dunlap-Smith
pp. 41-65
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2017.0004
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Appealing to the Sensible: “Mr. Parkman’s Tour,” Gold Fever, and Melville’s Ambivalent Westward Approach

Nicholas Lawrence
pp. 66-84
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2017.0005
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Digesting Moby-Dick

Benjamin Doty
pp. 85-101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2017.0006
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American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville by Paul Hurh (review)

Elizabeth Duquette
pp. 103-107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2017.0007
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Melville in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates ed. by Steven Olsen-Smith (review)

Wyn Kelley
pp. 108-112
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2017.0008
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Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600–Present ed. by Charlotte Mathieson (review)

Jimmy Packham
pp. 113-118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2017.0009
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All Astir

Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
pp. 120-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2017.0010
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Whales in Cincinnati

Dawn Coleman
pp. 122-139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lvn.2017.0011
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