Hunting Captain Ahab: psychological warfare and the Melville revival

pt. 1. Melville's rainbow (under-read) : an unclosed case study in conservation enlightenment

The moderate response to nineteenth-century radicalism : "American literature" and the Progressives

The fatal line : who was Isabel? What was his problem?

Melville and the radical Puritans

The modern artist as Red Specter : "An irruption of heretic thought hard to suppress"

pt. 2. Tracing their old courses again : the Melville revival, 1919-1953

The boulevard of broken dreams : Raymond M. Weaver and the Melville revival, 1919-1935

Pluralism in one perfectly happy family, 1926-1953 : a peep at apes and angels

A change of clowns : film noir phasing out the weaver synthesis

pt. 3. Melville, Ahab, and the Jewish-American Hitler

White rot in the Melville industry

After the revolution : the racial discourse of ethnopluralism

appendix. Repunctuating the Melville revival : a new map, a pause, and a tour through the archives.