Evolving Table of Contents for MELVILLE BIOGRAPHY: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE

MELVILLE BIOGRAPHY: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE

00 Preface

§ I.--Biographer and Biography
01 The Textual Editor as Biographer in Training: The Norton Moby- Dick and the Northwestern-Newberry The Writings of Herman Melville
02 Entangled by Pierre: Doing Biography Away from the Archives
03 Creating The New Melville Log
04 Melville and the Footsteps Theory of Biography
05 Facts Which Do Not Speak for Themselves
06 Desiderata and Discoveries in Traditional Archives and Databases

§ II.—Critics vs. Archival Scholarship
07 Little Jack Horners and Archivophobics
08 Presentism in Melville Biography
09 Scholars and Recidivist Critics
10 Partisan Editors and Agenda-Driven Reviewers: Melville in the MSM vs. Hopeful Loomings of Litblogs and “Ragtag Bloggers”
11 The Malign Legacy of the New Criticism
12 The Late 20th-Century Mini-Melville: New York Intellectuals without Information
13 The Early 21st-Century Mini-Melville: New York Intellectuals without Information

§ III.—Demonstrations of Biographical Scholarship and Interpretation
14 Melville as the “Modern Boccaccio”: The Fascinations of Fayaway
15 Melville’s Courtship of Elizabeth Shaw
16 Melville's Short Run of Good Luck (1845-1849): Fool’s Paradise without International Copyright
17 Melville as the Harper “Sacrifice” for the “Public Good”
18 Melville and Hawthorne at the Hotel in Lenox
19 Why Melville Took Hawthorne to the Holy Land: Biography Enhanced by Databases and an Amateur Blogger
20 Melville as a Titan of Literature among High-Minded English Admirers: The Kory-Kory Component
21 Damned by Dollars: Moby-Dick and the Price of Genius