Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Preface. Melville, Mumford, Modernity xiii
5. Chapter 1. Loomings (1927–29) 1
6. Chapter 2. The Whiteness of the Page (1856–65) 7
7. Chapter 3. Bitter Morning (1918–19) 14
8. Chapter 4. Fragments of War and Peace (1865–67) 20
9. Chapter 5. Reconstruction (1930–31) 29
10. Chapter 6. The Golden Day (1846–50) 37
11. Chapter 7. Retrospective (1956–82) 45
12. Chapter 8. A Bosom Friend (1850–51) 52
13. Chapter 9. Amor Threatening (1930–35) 62
14. Chapter 10. Cetology (1851–52) 71
15. Chapter 11. Neotechnics (1932–34) 80
16. Chapter 12. The Ambiguities (1852) 90
17. Chapter 13. Spiritual Freedom (1935–38) 99
18. Chapter 14. The Happy Failure (1853–55) 108
19. Chapter 15. Reconnaissance (1899–1925) 117
20. Chapter 16. Disenchantment (1853–55) 126
21. Chapter 17. Counterpoint (1938) 136
22. Chapter 18. Redburn (1839–55) 144
23. Chapter 19. Radburn (1923–39) 154
24. Chapter 20. Revolutions (1848–55) 166
25. Chapter 21. Misgivings and Preparatives (1938–39) 177
26. Chapter 22. The Piazza (1856–57) 186
27. Chapter 23. Faith (1940–43) 195
28. Chapter 24. The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating (1856–57) 206
29. Chapter 25. The Darkness of the Present Day (1944) 217
30. Chapter 26. More Gloom, and the Light of That Gloom (1856–76) 228
31. Chapter 27. Survival (1944–47) 240
32. Chapter 28. The Warmth and Chill of Wedded Life and Death (1876–91) 252
33. Chapter 29. Chronometricals and Horologicals (1944–51) 264
34. Chapter 30. The Life-Buoy (1891; 1924–29) 278
35. Chapter 31. Man’s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth (1951–62) 291
36. Chapter 32. Revival (1919–62) 302
37. Chapter 33. Call Me Jonah (1962–82) 315
38. Chapter 34. Lizzie (1891–1906) 330
39. Chapter 35. Sophia (1982–97) 341
40. Chapter 36. Rediscovery (2019) 352
41. Acknowledgments 361
42. Notes 371
43. Illustration Credits 433
44. Index 435