Introduction: Seams and seamlessness in antebellum America -- Christ's seamless robe and the material-spiritual duality in the American renaissance -- Seam by seam: Emily Dickinson's seamless theory of mind -- The seamless web of John S. Sauzade's The Spuytenduyvel Chronicle -- Three literary men: the intertwined lives of Herman Melville, George Washington Peck, and John S. Sauzade -- The seamless whole: national fictions in Herman Melville's Moby-dick (1851), Pierre (1852), and The confidence-man (1857) -- Melville's unraveling in the angelicalness of Pierre -- Epilogue: Loomings of futurity in the seams of Don DeLillo's White noise.
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