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Introduction: Moby-Dick and the Aesthetics of Response; ContemporaryReviews; Rhapsody Run Mad, Anonymous; Heroics and Horrors, Anonymous; AStrange, Wild, Weird Book by George Henry Lewes; A Book of ExtraordinaryMerit, Anonymous; The Judgment Day Will Hold Him Liable, Anonymous; VileOverdaubing with a Coat of Book-Learning and Mysticism, Anonymous; WildlyImaginative and Truly Thrilling, Anonymous; An Intellectual Chowder by EvertDuyckinck; His Whole Soul Is Rapt in His Subject, Anonymous; The MelvilleRevival; A Medley of Noble Impassioned Thoughts by W. Clark Russell; ThePractical with the Ideal by H.S. Salt; A Strange, Conglomerate Book byWilliam B. Cairns; "Moby-Dick" and the Years to Come, Anonymous; Romance andAdventure, Anonymous; "Moby-Dick" by E.L. Grant Watson; A Moby-DickTestimonial "A Wayfarer" (H.W. Massingham); Not Everybody's Book by FrankSwinnerton; Great Names: Herman Melville by Viola Meynell; The Crown ofMelville's Artistic Achievement by J.C. Squire; An Introduction to HermanMelville's Moby-Dick: or the Whale by A.S.W. Rosenbach; Mr. Melville's"Moby-Dick" by Carl Van Doren; A Magnificent Feeling by Charles Burchfield;Herman Melville by Thomas Moult; Who is Melville?, Anonymous; Footnote toBartlett's by Christopher Morley; Academic Attention; Melville's Strugglewith the Angel by Leon Howard; Moby-Dick: Work of Art by Walter E. Bezanson;Moby-Dick and the American West by Edwin Fussell; Moby-Dick: Line and Circleby John Seelye; Ishmael's Godly Gamesomeness: Selftaste and Rhetoric inMoby-Dick by Warwick Wadlington; "Loomings": Yarns and Figures in the Fabricby Harrison Hayford; Ahab Gets Girl, or Herman Melville Goes to the Movies byEdward Stone; The Madness of Ahab by Henry Nash Smith; Herman Melville andthe Example of Sir Thomas Browne by Brian Foley; Moby-Dick and the Spirit ofRevolution by Mark Niemeyer; Selected Additional Readings; Index. KEVIN J.HAYES is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma.