Exiled royalties: Melville and the life we imagine

Melville and Polynesia

The broken circle: Melville and (post-)romanticism

The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (1): Melville's metaphysics of democracy: "Hawthorne and his mosses"

The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (2): Ishmael's grand erections

Exiled royalties

"The ugly Socrates": Melville, Hawthorne, and the varieties of Homoerotic experience

An arch between two lives: Melville and the Mediterranean, 1856-1857

Uncivil wars

Unworldly yearners: agnostic spirituality in Clarel

Alms for oblivion.