A companion to Herman Melville

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My utmost gratitude goes to the authors in this book, who taught me the pleasures of collaboration on a grand scale. I owe many thanks to Andrew McNeillie for inviting me into the project, and to Emma Bennett, Karen Wilson, Jenny Hunt, and Glynis Baguley for their wise guidance through its different stages. Wai Chee Dimock, Diana Henderson, and Timothy Marr offered invaluable advice during the planning phase. I am immensely grateful to John Bryant and Robert S. Levine for their generous readings of the proposal. Members of the Melville Society Cultural Project – Jill Barnum, Mary K. BercawEdwards, Elizabeth Schultz, Christopher Sten, and Robert K. Wallace – lent unfailingly kind support throughout. Millicent C. Kelley’s courage continues to inspire my work, Britt and Bayne Peterson sustain it with their joy and creativity, and Dale Peterson is the staunch companion who makes it all worthwhile.