The text of Moby-Dick --

Reviews and letters by Melville --

Analogues and sources --

[Journal entry on a white whale] / Ralph Waldo Emerson --

Mocha Dick : or the white whale of the Pacific / J.N. Reynolds --

[The Essex wrecked by a whale] / Owen Chase --

[Manuscript notes on Owen Chase] / Herman Melville --

[Sources of "The try-works"] / Howard P. Vincent --

The source for the hymn in Moby-Dick / David H. Battenfeld --

Criticism --

Contemporary reviews : 1851-1853 --

[An intellectual chowder] / Evert A. Duyckinck --

[A pregnant allegory / George Ripley] --

[A prose epic on whaling / William A. Butler] --

[Cause for a writ de lunatic] / Anonymous --

[Maniacal style and furibund story / William Harrison Ainsworth] --

Interim appraisals : 1893-1913 --

[A marvellous odyssey] / Anonymous --

[Melville's flawed masterpiece, and his decline] / William P. Trent --

[Melville's finest performance] / W. Clark Russell --

[A group of minor fiction writers] / William J. Long --

Revival and reaction : 1917-1936 --

[The originality of Moby-Dick] / Carl Van Doren --

[Melville's composite achievement] / Raymond Weaver --

[A deposition from a new reader / A wayfarer] --

[Melville's enduring reputation in England] / J. St. Loe Strachey --

[Execrable English and fantastic grandeur] / Leonard Woolf --

[Moby-Dick as poetic epic] / Lewis Mumford --

[Moby-Dick vs. Huckleberry Finn] / Bernard DeVoto --

[Melville : not even a minor master] / Ludwig Lewisohn --

Academic criticism : 1932-1962 --

[Melville's quest for the ultimate] / William Thorp --

[Melville's tragically great hero] / Stanley Geist --

[Ishmael vs. Ahab] / William Ellery Sedgwick --

Ahab and his fool / Charles Olson --

Moby-Dick : work of art / Walter E. Bezanson --

[Moby-Dick as symbolic voyage] / Charles Feidelson, Jr. --

[The try-works] / R.W.B. Lewis --

[Comic vision and technique in Moby-Dick] / Edward Rosenberry --

[Moby-Dick as tragedy] / Richard B. Sewall --

[Characterization in Moby-Dick] / Warner Berthoff --

Biography --

[The composition of Moby-Dick] / Leon Howard.