Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-365) and index.
Contents:
Hawthorne and Melville: writing, relationship, and missing letters / Jana L. Argersinger, Leland S. Person -- Mr. Omoo and the Hawthornes: the biographical background / Laurie Robertson-Lorant -- Hawthorne and Melville; or, the ambiguities / Brenda Wineapple -- "The ugly Socrates": Melville, Hawthorne, and the varieties of homoerotic experience / Robert Milder -- "Ineffable socialities": Melville, Hawthorne, and masculine ambivalence in the antebellum marketplace / Gale Temple -- Italy, the Civil War, and the politics of friendship / Dennis Berthold -- Letters on foolscap / Wyn Kelley -- Hawthorne and Melville in the shoals: "Agatha," the trials of authorship, and the dream of collaboration / Wyn Kelley -- "Shanties of chapters and essays": rewriting Moby-Dick / Robert Sattelmeyer -- Genealogical fictions: race in the house of the seven gables and Pierre / Robert S. Levine -- In the Whale's wake: Melville and The Blithedale romance / Thomas R. Mitchell -- "In old Rome's Pantheon": Hawthorne, Melville, and the two republics / Richard Hardack -- Hawthorne, Melville, and the spirits / Ellen Weinauer -- Alienated affections: Hawthorne and Melville's trans-intimate relationship / Christopher Castiglia.
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